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Process employing controlled crystallization in forming crystals of a pharmaceutical
A process is provided which employs reactive controlled crystallization to produce drug substance having desirable crystal properties which process involves providing reactants A and B in liquid or solution form and adding reactant B to reactant A using a cubic or incremental addition technique to control extent of reaction and thus crystallization kinetics, including supersaturation and nucleation, to produce crystals of drug substance which are generally larger, better quality and with few fines and narrow particle size distribution than normally obtainable employing prior art crystallization techniques. In addition, crystals of drug substance produced by the above process is also provided.
Kim, Soojin (West Orange, NJ, US)
Wei, Chenkou (Princeton Junction, NJ, US)
Lindrud, Mark D. (Basking Ridge, NJ, US)
Chung, Hyei-jha (Plainsboro, NJ, US)
23/295R
C07D213/42; C07D263/32; C07D263/34; (IPC1-7): C07D263/34
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RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE
STEPHEN B. DAVIS;BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY (PATENT DEPARTMENT, P O BOX 4000, PRINCETON, NJ, 08543-4000, US)
1. A process for forming crystals of a salt of a pharmaceutical by means of controlled reactive crystallization which comprises: reacting a first reactant with increments of a second reactant added at an increasing rate according to the following equation: V=Vtotal×(tttotal)3 where V=Volume of second reactant added up to the elapsed time period t Vtotal=Total volume of second reactant for 100% reaction conversion t=Elapsed time in crystallization ttotal=Total crystallization time or total time for second reactant charging to control the extent of reaction and crystallization kinetics and form crystals of the resulting pharmaceutical product.
2. The process as defined in claim 1 wherein the first reactant is in the form of a solution or other liquid.
3. The process as defined in claim 1 wherein the second reactant is in the form of a solution or other liquid.
4. The process as defined in claim 1 wherein the third reactant (which may or may not be needed) is optionally premixed with the first reactant or second reactant.
5. The process as defined in claim 1 wherein the first reactant is a free base of the pharmaceutical salt and the second reactant is an acid.
6. The process as defined in claim 1 wherein the first reactant is a free acid of the pharmaceutical salt and the second reactant is a base.
7. The process as defined in claim 1 further including the step of adding seeds of crystals of the pharmaceutical salt to the first reactant or to the reaction mixture of the first reactant and second reactant after a portion of the second reactant is added.
8. The process as defined in claim 5 wherein the first reactant in the form of a free base is dissolved in a solvent in which the salt of the pharmaceutical product is substantially insoluble.
9. The process as defined in claim 1 wherein the first reactant is the free base of the structure dissolved in a solvent and the second reactant is chlorotrimethylsilane and the third reactant is methanol and crystals of the HCl salt of the free base crystallize out in the solvent.
10. The process as defined in claim 9 wherein the free base is dissolved in ethyl acetate and mixed with the third reactant, methanol.
11. The process as defined in claim 9 including the step of adding seeds of the HCl salt of said free base to a solution of the free base.
12. The process as defined in claim 9 wherein from about 1 to about 1.2 molar equivalent of chlorotrimethylsilane is added to the solution of the free base incrementally.
13. The process as defined in claim 12 wherein the chlorotrimethylsilane is added at an increasing rate as crystallization proceeds.
14. A process for forming crystals of a salt of a pharmaceutical by means of controlled reactive crystallization, which comprises: a) providing a first reactant in the form of a liquid; b) providing a second reactant in the form of a liquid; c) providing a third reactant (if needed) premixed with the first or second reactant; d) adding seeds to the first reactant; e) reacting the first reactant with a first portion of the second reactant in an amount to react with less than about 15% by weight of the first reactant; and f) reacting the first reactant with incremental portions of the second reactant by adding the second reactant in multiple stages or at continuously varied rate to form crystals of the salt of the pharmaceutical.
15. The process as defined in claim 14 wherein the first reactant is in the form of a free base or free acid of the pharmaceutical salt and the second reactant is an acid or base.
16. The process as defined in claim 15 wherein the second reactant is added at an increasing rate according to the following equation: V=Vtotal×(tttotal)3 where V=Volume of second reactant added up to the elapsed time period t Vtotal=Total volume of second reactant for 100% reaction conversion t=Elapsed time in crystallization ttotal=Total crystallization time or total time for second reactant charging
17. The process as defined in claim 14 further including the step of adding seeds of crystals of the pharmaceutical salt to the first reactant or to the reaction mixture of the first and second reactants.
18. A process for preparing crystals of HCl salt of the structure by means of controlled reactive crystallization, which comprises a) preparing a solution of the free base of the structure dissolved in a solvent in which the HCl salt of said free base is substantially insoluble mixed with the third reactant, methanol; and b) reacting the free base and methanol with incremental amounts of chlorotrimethylsilane by adding chlorotrimethylsilane in multiple stages or at continuously varied rate to effect formation of crystals of HCl salt.
19. The process as defined in claim 18 wherein the free base is dissolved in ethyl acetate.
20. The process as defined in claim 18 including the step of adding seeds of the HCl salt of the free base to the solution of the free base.
21. The process as defined in claim 18 wherein the chlorotrimethylenesilane is added at an increasing rate according to the following equation V=Vtotal×(tttotal)3 where V=Volume of chlorotrimethylsilane added per the given time period t Vtotal=Total volume of chlorotrimethylsilane representing the 100% charge t=Elapsed time in crystallization ttotal=Total crystallization time or total time for chlorotrimethylsilane charging.
22. Crystals of a salt of a pharmaceutical prepared by the process as defined in claim 1.
23. Crystals of a salt of a pharmaceutical prepared by the process as defined in claim 14.
24. Crystals of the HCl salt of the structure prepared by the process as defined in claim 18.
REFERENCE TO OTHER APPLICATION
The present application takes priority from U.S. provisional application Nos. 60/568,043 filed May 4, 2004, and 60/607,533 filed Sep. 7, 2004, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to a process for forming crystals of a salt of a pharmaceutical by reactive controlled crystallization employing a cubic or incremental reactant addition technique to control extent of reaction and thus crystallization kinetics and to crystals of a pharmaceutical produced by such process.
Crystallization is a critical operation in the manufacture of pharmaceutical compounds. The crystallization process as part of the synthesis of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) affects the API crystal properties such as purity, polymorphic form, particle size and habit. Optimization of the crystallization process is important for API product quality as well as for process efficiency and high yield.
Crystal properties also significantly impact the downstream processing. For example, excess fines or wide particle size distribution may cause slow filtration and inefficient drying which may be a major bottleneck of the entire process, necessitating modification of the crystallization process to produce the type of particles that facilitate downstream processing.
Another important aspect of crystallization development involves particle engineering to obtain desired particle size or habit to meet the biopharmaceutical performance requirements. For insoluble or dissolution-limited drug substances, small particle size is necessary to maximize surface area to enhance bioavailability. Particle uniformity may be important to homogeneity of blend or granulation during formulation and consistent dosage of product. In addition, API crystal properties such as particle size distribution, habit and surface properties have large impact on the bulk powder properties which affect formulation operations such as blending, granulation, and compaction. Therefore, having consistent and optimal API physical properties is essential for the development of formulation processes to produce consistent and reliable product.
Design of crystallization processes is aimed at achieving drug substances with the desired characteristics in consistently high quality. On the other hand, preserving the crystals' quality and key physical properties throughout the downstream processing steps—such as filtration, drying, and delumping—may be a challenging task. For example, undesirable form change, particle size reduction or agglomeration may arise as a result of the downstream processing and cause poor product performance. For some cases, monitoring key particle properties during the processing steps following the crystallization may be necessary and would allow identification of the steps that cause adverse changes and help in implementing corrective measures.
The crystallization process employed could be especially important for a drug whose physical properties including crystal purity, polymorphic form, particle size and habit, have a strong effect on the formulation and drug product performance. Thus, a controlled crystallization process to produce optimal crystal properties that facilitate filtration, drying and powder handling that would preserve the quality of API crystals to achieve consistently excellent formulation characteristics and drug product performance would indeed be a welcomed addition to the pharmaceutical industry.
U.S. provisional application No. 60/568,043 filed May 4, 2004 from which the present application claims priority relates to a process for preparing the HIV protease inhibitor atazanavir bisulfate (also referred to as atazanavir sulfate) employing a reactive controlled crystallization technique, namely a modified cubic crystallization method based on volume of reactant added as opposed to uncontrolled crystallization process described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,087,383. The crystals of atazanavir bisulfate obtained by reactive controlled crystallization are generally larger and are of better quality than those obtained employing prior art procedures involving addition of sulfuric acid to a solution of atazanavir free base suspended in ethanol which causes the free base to dissolve and react to form the bisulfate salt. Crystallization of such bisulfate is initiated by seeding and subsequently adding heptanes as antisolvent, and the crystallization proceeds in an uncontrolled manner. The filtration process is slow with inefficient washing, and the resulting wet cake is highly compressible due to excess fines and wide particle size distribution caused by uncontrolled nucleation and crystallization. When dried, the wet cake compacts into hard lumps and requires extensive milling operation for further processing.
U.S. provisional application 60/572,397 filed May 19, 2004 discloses treating the Schiff's base
with an acid-salt forming reagent such as trimethylchlorosilane in the presence of an alcohol such as methanol, to form the hydrochloride acid salt IIa
It is further disclosed that the optimal addition rate for the acid-salt forming reagent trimethylchlorosilane is a cubic addition profile for maximizing removal of organic contaminants.
In accordance with the present invention, a process is provided for forming crystals of a salt of a pharmaceutical by means of controlled reactive crystallization, which process includes the steps of
a) providing a first reactant in the form of a liquid;
b) providing a second reactant in the form of a liquid; and
c) adding the second reactant to the first reactant incrementally to form crystals.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the first reactant will be in the form of a free base or free acid of the pharmaceutical salt and the second reactant will be an acid or a base.
In carrying out the reactive controlled crystallization technique of the invention, the second reactant is added at a very slow rate initially and at an increasing rate according to the following equation V=Vtotal×(tttotal)3
V=Volume of second reactant added during the elapsed time period t
Vtotal=Total volume of second reactant for 100% reaction conversion
t=Elapsed time in crystallization
ttotal=Total crystallization time or total time for second reactant charging
Formation of crystals may be enhanced by adding seeds of crystals of the pharmaceutical salt to one of the reactants or to the reaction mixture of the first and second reactants after a portion of the second reactant (typically less than about 15% of total) is added.
Total crystallization time may be as short as 1 hour and as long as desired. Typically 2-8 hour of total addition time is effective. The longer the addition time, the slower the crystallization rate, and generally the larger the crystals obtained.
The process of the invention may be employed in preparing crystals of the HIV protease inhibitor atazanavir bisulfate as disclosed.
U.S. provisional application No. 60/568,043 filed May 4, 2004, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, discloses that crystals of the bisulfate salt of atazanavir bisulfate are formed by a process which employs the modified cubic crystallization technique (described herein) wherein sulfuric acid is added at an increasing rate according to a cubic equation (as described hereinafter), and includes the steps of reacting a solution of atazanavir free base in an organic solvent (in which the atazanavir bisulfate salt is substantially insoluble, such as acetone, a mixture of acetone and N-methylpyrrolidone, ethanol, or a mixture of ethanol and acetone) with a first portion of concentrated sulfuric acid in an amount to react with less than about 15%, preferably less than about 12%, by weight of the atazanavir free base, adding seeds of atazanavir bisulfate Form A crystals to the reaction mixture, and as crystals of atazanavir bisulfate form, adding additional concentrated sulfuric acid in multiple stages at increasing rates according to the cubic equation to effect formation of Form A crystals.
The process of the invention may also be employed for preparing crystals of the HCl salt (or other salt) of the structure
(hereinafter also referred to as the PPAR α/γ dual agonist intermediate)
by means of controlled reactive crystallization, which includes the steps of
a) preparing a solution of the free base of the structure
(hereinafter also referred to as the PPAR free base)
dissolved in a solvent in which the HCl salt (or other salt) of said free base is substantially insoluble such as ethyl acetate and premixing with methanol which serves as another reactant in the reaction;
b) adding chlorotrimethylenesilane incrementally to effect formation crystals of HCl salt (PPAR α/γ dual agonist intermediate); and
c) drying the crystals of HCl salt.
Crystal formation may be enhanced by adding seeds of the HCl salt of the free base to the solution of the free base.
The chlorotrimethylenesilane is added at an increasing rate according to the following cubic equation set out herein.
The above salt of the free acid (PPAR α/γ dual agonist intermediate) is employed as an intermediate in the preparation of compounds employed in treating Type II diabetes and dyslipidemia as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,414,002, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
Crystallization of the free base B preferably involves an HCl salt crystallization by a reaction between the free base B and chlorotrimethylsilane in presence of methanol, employing a molar equivalent of chlorotrimethylsilane within the range from about 1 to about 1.2. The free base B is dissolved preferably in ethyl acetate/methanol (from 15:1 to 20:1 volume ratio). Preferably 1-1.2 or more molar equiv. of chlorotrimethylsilane is added to the free base solution incrementally. It is preferred to add chlorotrimethylsilane at a very slow rate initially and at increasing rate as crystallization proceeds. Seeding is preferred for better control of crystallization and can be done before chlorotrimethylsilane addition. Crystals are formed as a result of the HCl salt formation which crystallizes out in ethyl acetate.
Crystallization by this technique produces initially a thin slurry gradually increasing in solid mass as the addition progresses, whereas the crystallization by conventional methods (using uncontrolled addition) produces fast precipitation of large amount of solids that results in a thick and unstirrable slurry. The crystals from the cubic addition are well-defined and larger and produce less-compressible wet cake with good filtration and wash efficiency which also facilitate drying and powder handling.
In addition, in accordance with the present invention, crystals of a salt of a pharmaceutical prepared by the process as described above are also provided.
Finally, crystals of the HCl salt (or other salt) of the structure
prepared by the process as defined above are provided.
The process of the invention employing controlled crystallization using cubic or incremental addition technique to control the extent of reaction and thus crystallization kinetics to produce optimal crystals of drug product is applicable to any reactive crystallization involving reactions such as
1) Acid+Base→salt crystals; or
2) A+B→crystal product; or
3) A+B+C→crystal product
where A (including acids) and B (including bases) are liquids or are dissolved in separate solvents to form solutions, C (which may or may not be necessary) may be premixed with A or B, and crystals precipitate out as a result of reaction.
By controlling the extent of reaction of A, B, and C using incremental addition of one of the reactants into the solution of other reactant, supersaturation is controlled within low limits (such as 1-15%) and nucleation is minimized. The resulting crystals are generally larger, are of better quality, and with fewer fines and narrow size distribution than those produced employing uncontrolled crystallization techniques.
The process of the invention employing the above-described controlled crystallization technique produce crystals of drug product having desired and consistent physical properties. The crystals obtained are generally larger, more well-defined with tight particle size distribution and fewer fines than obtained employing uncontrolled addition or constant addition rate crystallization techniques. The controlled crystallization technique (especially of the cubic addition) of the invention provides less compressible filter cake, which aids in effective cake deliquoring and washing, as well as providing a more easily dried product with excellent powder properties than obtained employing uncontrolled or constant addition rate crystallization techniques. The active pharmaceutical ingredient prepared by the process of the invention also facilitates formulation by improved bulk flowability, bulk density, and powder properties and handling.
It is well known that a fast change of supersaturation particularly in the initial stage of the crystallization process results in the formation of a large number of crystal nuclei and generally yields a poor quality non-uniform product (Mullin and Nyvlt, 1971, Chem. Eng. Sci., 26, 369). Growth rates increase with higher operating level of supersaturation; however, the increase in nucleation rate is more sensitive to the higher supersaturation level, and plays the dominant role in the formation of particles, especially fines. Keeping the working level of supersaturation low to keep the nucleation rate low significantly improves the uniformity of product.
The elemental reactions for the reactive crystallization process for salts such as atazanavir bisulfate or the PPAR α/γ dual agonist intermediate may be written as:
Free Base+Acid→Salt (solution)
Salt (solution)→Salt (crystal)
The extent of the reaction and thus the crystallization can be limited by limiting the amount of the acid accessible for reaction. By controlling the addition rate of the acid, a measure of control over the rate of reaction is obtained and thus control over the rate of salt formation in solution ⅆCSalt(solution)ⅆt
which is equal to the rate of supersaturation change ⅆΔ CSalt(solution)ⅆt,
as shown in the simple kinetic expression: ⅆΔ CSalt(solution)ⅆt=ⅆCSalt(solution)ⅆt=krCFBCAcid-knA(t) Δ CSalt(solution)n-kgΔ CSalt(solution)g
where kr, kn, and kg are the reaction, nucleation, and growth rate constants, A(t) is the surface area, CSalt(solution) and ΔCSalt(solution) are the concentration and supersaturation of the salt in solution, and CFB and CAcid are the free base and acid concentration in solution.
For controlled crystallization, the free base, such as atazanavir or the PPAR free base, is first dissolved in a suitable solvent, and the supersaturation is managed by controlled acid addition (with crystal seeds present) using an incremental addition of acid to control the rate of reaction/crystallization.
In accordance with the present invention, further refinement of the controlled crystallization uses "cubic addition" wherein the acid (or base depending upon the nature of the other reactant) is added at an incremental amount at a variable rate, slow at first and gradually faster towards the end as the number of crystals and surface area available for growth increase. This crystallization protocol is designed to minimize nucleation rate and encourage particle growth onto crystal seeds that serve as nuclei.
The cubic method in a temperature controlled crystallization has been derived (Mullin and Nyvlt, 1971, supra; Jones and Mullin, 1974, Chem. Eng. Sci., 29, 105) as the following simplified equation: T=Tmax-(Tmax-Tmin)×(tttotal)3
where T is a temperature at time t, Tmax and Tmin are starting and ending temperatures for crystallization and ttotal is total crystallization time. Since the crystallization of atazanavir or the PPAR α/γ dual agonist free base B is controlled by the addition rate of sulfuric acid or chlorotrimethylsilane, the following cubic equation with respect to volume, similar to the above equation, is used: V=Vtotal×(tttotal)3
where V is the volume of sulfuric acid or chlorotrimethylsilane added during the elapsed time period t and Vtotal is total volume of sulfuric acid or chlorotrimethylsilane charge.
By controlling the crystallization rate using the above expression, nucleation is controlled within acceptable limits as the system maintains a constant low level of supersaturation. The slow initial acid or chlorotrimethylsilane flow rate has been shown to favor crystal growth over nucleation. Thus, as the surface area increases with particle size, the seed bed is able to accept the increasing acid flow rate without inducing secondary nucleation. The slow initial addition rate allows time for the crystals to grow larger, increasing the mean size. This cubic protocol is also consistent with a well-known observation that smaller crystals in general grow at lower rates compared to larger crystals. As the crystals grow, faster surface integration kinetics allows larger crystals to grow at higher growth rates (Mullin, 1993, Crystallization, 3rd Ed., Butterworth-Heineman, Oxford, pubis.).
The crystal particle size and morphology are dependent on the addition rate of the acid (or base). This cubic crystallization protocol carried out over 6-8 hours provides relatively larger, more well-defined crystals, along with a narrower particle size range and fewer fines, than a constant addition rate crystallization. The cubic crystallization provides less compressible filter cake, which aids in effective cake deliquoring and washing, as well as giving a more easily dried product with excellent bulk powder handling properties.
The crystallization process employed in the process of the invention resolve the issues of wide particle size distribution, wet cake compressibility and filtration rate, wash efficiency, powder properties and formulation problems. The crystals produced by the cubic controlled addition crystallization protocol of the invention are more consistent in quality and size distribution and facilitate filtration, drying, and formulation than those produced employing uncontrolled crystallization.
In carrying out the process of the invention for preparing Form A crystals of atazanavir bisulfate salt, a modified cubic crystallization technique is employed wherein atazanavir free base is dissolved in an organic solvent in which the atazanavir bisulfate salt is substantially insoluble and includes acetone, a mixture of acetone and N-methylpyrrolidone, ethanol, a mixture of ethanol and acetone and the like, to provide a solution having a concentration of atazanavir free base within the range from about 6.5 to about 9.7% by weight, preferably from about 6.9 to about 8.1% by weight atazanavir free base.
The solution of atazanavir free base is heated at a temperature within the range from about 35 to about 55° C., preferably from about 40 to about 50° C., and reacted with an amount of concentrated sulfuric acid (containing from about 95 to about 100% H2SO4) to react with less than about 15% (including 0 to about 15%), preferably from about 5 to less than about 12%, more preferably from about 8 to about 10% by weight of the total atazanavir free base. Thus, the starting solution of atazanavir free base will be initially reacted with less than about 15%, preferably from about 5 to about 12%, by weight of the total amount of sulfuric acid to be employed. During the reaction, the reaction mixture is maintained at a temperature within the range from about 35 to about 55° C., preferably from about 40 to about 50° C.
The reaction is allowed to continue for a period from about 12 to about 60 minutes, preferably from about 15 to about 30 minutes.
The reaction mixture is seeded with crystals of Form A atazanavir bisulfate employing an amount of seeds within the range from about 0.1 to about 80% by weight, preferably from about 3 to about 8% by weight, based on the weight of atazanavir free base remaining in the reaction mixture while maintaining the reaction mixture at a temperature within the range from about 35 to about 55° C., preferably from about 40 to about 50° C.
The reaction is allowed to continue until crystallization begins. Thereafter, sulfuric acid is added in multiple stages at an increasing rate according to the cubic equation as described below to form atazanavir bisulfate which upon drying produces Form A crystals.
In carrying out the process of the invention for preparing crystals of the PPAR α/γ dual agonist HCl salt (or other salt) intermediate A, a modified cubic crystallization technique is employed wherein PPAR α/γ dual agonist free base B is dissolved in an organic solvent in which the free base is substantially insoluble and includes ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, and the like, to provide a solution having a concentration of free base within the range from about 5 to about 20% by weight, preferably from about 6 to about 10% by weight free base.
The solution of free base B is heated at a temperature within the range from about 35 to about 55° C., preferably from about 40 to about 50° C. and mixed with methanol (third reactant), and reacted with an amount of chlorotrimethylsilane to react with less than about 10% (including 0 to 10%), preferably from less than about 5% by weight of the total free base B. Thus, the starting solution of free base B will be initially reacted with less than about 10% (including 0 to about 10%), preferably less than 5 by weight of the total amount of chlorotrimethylsilane to be employed.
The PPAR α/γ dual agonist free base solution may be seeded with crystals of PPAR α/γ dual agonist salt intermediate A (prior to adding chlorotrimethylsilane) employing an amount of seeds within the range from about 0.01 to about 20% by weight, preferably from about 0.1 to about 8% by weight, based on the weight of free base while maintaining a temperature within the range from about 35 to about 55° C., preferably from about 40 to about 50° C.
The free base B is reacted with incremental portions of chlorotrimethylsilane (preferably total 1-1.2 molar equivalent to the free base) to continuously form the HCl salt crystals. It is preferred to add chlorotrimethylsilane at a very slow rate initially and at increasing rate according to the cubic equation as described herein. The addition of chlorotrimethylsilane may be done at continuously increasing rate or alternatively in several addition stages each with fixed but successively higher addition rate. During the reaction, the reaction mixture is maintained at a temperature within the range from about 35 to about 55° C., preferably from about 40 to about 50° C.
The crystal particle size and morphology of the salts formed are dependent on the addition rate of the sulfuric acid or chlorotrimethylsilane or other acid or base or other salt forming reactant, which determines the crystallization rate. It has been found that a modified "cubic" crystallization technique (sulfuric acid or chlorotrimethylsilane or other reactant added at an increasing rate according to the cubic equation) provides relatively larger, more well defined bisulfate salt or HCl salt (or other salt) crystals, along with a narrower particle size range and fewer fines, than a constant addition rate crystallization. The slow initial sulfuric acid or chlorotrimethylsilane flow rate has been shown to favor crystal growth over secondary nucleation. Thus, as the surface area increases with particle size, the seed bed is able to accept the increasing sulfuric acid or chlorotrimethylsilane flow rate without inducing much secondary nucleation. The slow initial addition rate allows time for the crystals to grow larger, increasing the mean size. The cubic crystallization provides a less compressible filter cake, which aids in effective cake deliquoring and washing, as well as giving a more easily dried product with fewer hard lumps than the uncontrolled or constant addition rate crystallized product.
Crystals of other salts of the PPAR α/γ dual agonist free base B which may be prepared herein in accordance with the present invention include the salts of sulfuric acid, hydrobromic acid, and the like.
As indicated, the process of the invention is applicable to salt formation reactions that can use cubic addition techniques for controlled crystallization and particle size control. Examples of such salt forming reactions which can be carried out in accordance with the present invention are as follows:
Pyrrolotriazine Compound (for Treating p38 Kinase Related Diseases Such as Rheumatoid Arthritis)
Free Base I+methanesulfonic acid→mesylate salt of Free Base I
(as disclosed in U.S. Patent No. WO 2004/043912)
Clopidogrel (for Inhibiting Formation of Blood Clots)
Clopidogrel+H2SO4→Sulfate salt of clopidogrel
Clopidogrel+HCl→HCl salt of clopidogrel
Clopidogrel+HBr→HBr salt of clopidogrel
(as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,847,265)
Fused Pyridopyridazine Inhibitor Compound (for Treating Sexual Dysfunction)
Free Base II+methanesulfonic acid→mesylate salt of Free Base II
Free Base I+HCl→hydrochloride salt of Free Base II
Free Base II+HBr→HBr salt of Free Base II
Free Base II+H2SO4→sulfate salt of Free Base II
PPAR α/γ Dual Agonist Compounds (for Use in Treating Type II Diabetes or Dyslipidemia)
PPAR acid+NaOH→sodium salt of PPAR acid
PPAR acid+KOH→potassium salt of PPAR acid
PPAR acid+amino acid→amino acid salt or complex of PPAR acid
Combretastatin Prodrug (for Use in Cancer Treatment)
Combretastatin+Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane→TRIS salt of combretastatin
Combretastatin+L-Histidine→L-Histidine salt of combretastatin
Combretastatin+NaOH→sodium salt of combretastatin
(as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,670,344 B2)
The crystals of pharmaceuticals produced in accordance with the process of the invention may be formulated into pharmaceutical compositions for oral administration by combining the active ingredient with solid carriers, if desired granulating a resulting mixture, and processing the mixture, if desired or necessary, after the addition of appropriate excipients, into tablets, dragée cores, capsules or powders for oral use. It is also possible for the active ingredients to be incorporated into plastic carriers that allow the active ingredients to diffuse or be released in measured amounts.
The bulking agents or fillers will be present in the pharmaceutical compositions of the invention in an amount within the range from about 0.5 to about 95% by weight and preferably from about 10 to about 85% by weight of the composition. Examples of bulking agents or fillers suitable for use herein include, but are not limited to, cellulose derivatives such as microcrystalline cellulose or wood cellulose, lactose, sucrose, starch, pregelatinized starch, dextrose, mannitol, fructose, xylitol, sorbitol, corn starch, modified corn starch, inorganic salts such as calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, dextrin/dextrates, maltodextrin, compressible sugars, and other known bulking agents or fillers, and/or mixtures of two or more thereof, preferably lactose.
A binder will be optionally present in the pharmaceutical compositions of the invention in an amount within the range from about 0 to about 20% weight, preferably from about 1 to about 10% by weight of the composition. Examples of binders suitable for use herein include, but are not limited to, hydroxypropyl cellulose, corn starch, pregelatinized starch, modified corn starch, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) (molecular weight ranging from about 5,000 to about 80,000, preferably about 40,000), hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose (HPMC), lactose, gum acacia, ethyl cellulose, cellulose acetate, as well as a wax binder such as carnauba wax, paraffin, spermaceti, polyethylenes or microcrystalline wax, as well as other conventional binding agent and/or mixtures by two or more thereof, preferably hydroxypropyl cellulose.
The disintegrant will be optionally present in the pharmaceutical composition of the invention in an amount within the range from about 0 to about 20% by weight, preferably from about 0.25 to about 15% by weight of the composition. Examples of disintegrants suitable for use herein include, but are not limited to, croscarmellose sodium, crospovidone, potato starch, pregelatinized starch, corn starch, sodium starch glycolate, microcrystalline cellulose, or other known disintegrant, preferably croscarmellose sodium.
The lubricant will be optionally present in the pharmaceutical composition of the invention in an amount within the range from about 0.1 to about 4% by weight, preferably from about 0.2 to about 2% by weight of the composition. Examples of tableting lubricants suitable for use herein include, but are not limited to, magnesium stearate, zinc stearate, calcium stearate, talc, carnauba wax, stearic acid, palmitic acid, sodium stearyl fumarate or hydrogenated vegetable oils and fats, or other known tableting lubricants, and/or mixtures of two or more thereof, preferably magnesium stearate.
Capsules are hard gelatin capsules and also soft, sealed capsules made of gelatin and a plasticizer, such as glycerol or sorbitol. The hard gelatin capsules may include the active ingredient in the form of granules, for example with fillers, such as lactose, binders, such as starches, crospovidone and/or glidants, such as talc or magnesium stearate, and if desired with stabilizers. In soft gelatin capsules the active ingredient is preferably dissolved or suspended in suitable oily excipients, such as fatty oils, paraffin oil or liquid polyethylene glycols, it likewise being possible for stabilizers and/or antibacterial agents to be added.
The following Examples represent preferred embodiments of the invention.
1-[4-(Pyridin-2-yl)phenyl]-5(S)-2,5-bis{[N-(methoxycarbonyl)-L-tert-leucinyl]amino}-4-(S)-hydroxy-6-phenyl-2-azahexane, Bisulfate Salt (Form A) (Atazanavir Bisulfate—Form A)
(1-[4-(Pyridin-2-yl)phenyl]-5 (S)-2,5-bis [tert-butyloxycarbonyl)amino]-4(S)-hydroxy-6-phenyl-2-azahexane.3HCl (Triamine.3HCl Salt))
To a 1000 mL, 3-neck, round-bottom flask fitted with mechanical stirrer, nitrogen inlet and temperature probe was added the protected triamine 1-[4-(pyridin-2-yl)phenyl]-5(S)-2,5-bis[tert-butyloxycarbonyl)amino]-4(S)-hydroxy-6-phenyl-2-azahexane
(100 g, 0.178 mol), and CH2Cl2 (500 mL; 5 mL/g of protected triamine input) (prepared as described in Z. Xu et al., Process Research and Development for an Efficient Synthesis of the HIV Protease Inhibitor BMS-232,632, Organic Process Research and Development, 6, 323-328 (2002)) and the resulting slurry was agitated while maintaining the temperature at from about 5 to about 22° C.
Concentrated hydrochloric acid (68 mL, 0.82 mole, 4.6 eq.) was added to the reaction mixture at a rate such that the temperature of the reaction mixture remained between 5 and 30° C. The reaction mixture was heated to 30 to 40° C. and agitated until the reaction was judged complete by HPLC assay.
Water was added (70-210 mL, 0.7-2.1 mL/g protected triamine input) to the reaction mixture, the reaction mixture was agitated for 15 minutes and the phases were allowed to separate. The upper, product (triamine.3HCl salt)-rich aqueous oil was transferred to an addition funnel.
To a 3000 mL, 3-neck round bottom flask fitted with mechanical stirrer, addition funnel, nitrogen inlet, and temperature probe was added N-methoxycarbonyl-L-tert-leucine (77.2 g, 0.408 mol, 2.30 eq.), 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBT) (60.8 g, 0.450 mol, 2.53 eq.), and N-ethyl N′-dimethylaminopropyl carbodimide (EDAC) (82.0 g, 0.430 mol, 2.42 eq.), followed by CH2Cl2 (880 mL; 8.8 mL/g of protected triamine input) and the mixture was stirred at ambient temperature (18-25° C.) until formation of the active ester is complete, as judged by HPLC.
C. 1-[4-(Pyridin-2-yl)phenyl]-5(S)-2,5-bis{[N-(methoxycarbonyl)-L-tert-leucinyl]amino}-4(S)-hydroxy-6-phenyl-2-azahexane (atazanavir free base)
Anhydrous dibasic potassium phosphate (K2HPO4; 226 g., 1.30 mol, 7.30 eq. wrt protected triamine) was dissolved in 1130 mL of water (11.3 mL/g of protected amine; 5 ml/g of K2HPO4).
The K2HPO4 solution was added to the active ester solution prepared in Part B. To the stirred active ester/aqueous K2HPO4 mixture was slowly added the aqueous solution of Part A hydrogen chloride salt over a period of 1.5 to 2.0 h while maintaining agitation and a pot temperature between 5 and 20° C.
After the addition of the solution of the Part A hydrogen chloride salt was complete, the reaction mixture (coupling reaction) was heated to 30-40° C. and agitated until the coupling reaction was judged complete by HPLC assay.
The coupling mixture was cooled to 15 to 20° C. and the lower, product rich organic phase was separated from the upper, spent aqueous phase.
The product rich organic phase was washed with 1M NaH2PO4 (880 mL; pH=1.5; 8.8 mL/g of protected triamine input; 5 mole eq. wrt protected triamine), the phases were allowed to separate, and the spent aqueous phase was removed.
The washed product rich organic phase was stirred with 0.5 N NaOH (800 mL; 8 mL/g of protected triamine input) until HPLC assay of the rich organic phase showed the active esters to be below 0.3 I.I. each. The phases were allowed to separate and the spent aqueous phase was removed.
The rich organic phase was washed with 5% NaH2PO4 (450 mL, 4.5 mL/g of protected triamine input; pH=4.3), the phases were allowed to separate and the spent aqueous phase was removed.
The rich organic phase was washed with 10 w/v % NaCl (475 mL, 4.75 mL/g of protected triamine input) and the spent aqueous phase was removed.
The concentration of title free base in solution was 120 to 150 mg/mL with an in-process calculated yield of 95-100 mol %.
D. Solvent Exchange from CH2Cl2 into Acetone/N-Methylpyrrolidone
To the rich Part C free base solution in a 3000 mL, 3-neck round-bottom flask fitted with mechanical stirrer, temperature probe, and distillation condenser, was added N-methylpyrrolidone (148 mL; 1.25 mL/g of Part C free base based on in-process quantification assay). The solution was concentrated to ca. 360 mL (2.5-3.5 mL/g of Part C free base) using a jacket temperature of 70° C. or less; 500 mL of acetone (4-5 mL/g of Part C free base) was added to the concentrated solution and the mixture was distilled to a volume of about 400 mL or less.
The acetone addition and distillation were repeated until in-process assay indicated the CH2Cl2 level had reached the target endpoint. At crystallization volume, the CH2Cl2 content in the rich organic solution was 0.77 v/v %. Acetone was added to the concentrated free base solution to reach a total solution of 16 mL/g of free base. The bath temperature was maintained at 40-50° C. to prevent crystallization of free base. The solution was polish filtered through a 10-micron or finer filter while maintaining the temperature at 40 to 50° C. The polish filter was rinsed with acetone (125 mL, 1.0 mL/g of free base) and the rinse was added to the rich free base acetone/N-methylpyrrolidone solution which was used in the next step.
E. 1-[4-(Pyridin-2-yl)phenyl]-5(S)-2,5-bis{[N-(methoxycarbonyl)-L-tert-leucinyl]amino}-4(S)-hydroxy-6-phenyl-2-azahexane bisulfate salt
About 10% (2 g) of the total charge of concentrated sulfuric acid (19 g, 1.10 eq.) was added to the free base acetone/N-methylpyrrolidone solution of Part D, while maintaining the temperature at 40-50° C., via subsurface addition.
The reaction mixture was seeded with 5.0 wt % (wrt calculated free base in solution) of bisulfate salt. The seeded mixture was agitated at 40-50° C. for at least 30 minutes during which time the bisulfate salt began crystallizing as evidenced by the mixture increasing in opacity during this time.
The remaining sulfuric acid (17.8 g) was added over ca. 5 h in five stages according to the following protocol, defined by a cubic equation, while keeping the temperature at 40-50° C.
The rate of each addition stage was determined according to the cubic equation described hereinbefore and is shown in the table below.
Stage mL/kg/h mL(H2SO4)/h g(H2SO4)/h Duration (min)
1 4.62 0.579 1.065 60
3 16.55 2.073 3.814 60
5 48.47 6.071 11.171 23
After addition of H2SO4 was complete, the slurry was cooled to 20-25° C. for at least 1 h with agitation. The slurry was agitated at 20-25° C. for at least 1 h. The bisulfate salt was filtered and the mother liquor was recycled as needed to effect complete transfer. The filter cake was washed with acetone (5-10 mL/g of free base; 1200 mL acetone). The bisulfate salt was dried at NMT 55° C. under vacuum until the LOD <1% to produce a crystalline material.
The crystalline product was analyzed by PXRD, DSC and TGA patterns and found to be (non-solvated) Form A crystals of the title bisulfate.
The crystals produced by cubic crystallization where H2SO4 is added at an increasing rate according to the cubic equation described above were relatively larger and more well-defined, and had a narrower particle size range and fewer fines, than crystals obtained employing constant addition rate crystallization.
The filter cake obtained using the cubic crystallization technique was less compressible than that obtained using constant addition rate crystallization, which aided in effective cake deliquoring and washing and produced a homogeneous product.
Process to Crystallize PPAR α/γ Dual Agonist Salt Intermediate A for Synthesis of PPAR α/γ Dual Agonist Compound
The free base solution in ethyl acetate (about 300 ml, with approximate concentration of 15 ml/g) is polish filtered. It is preferred to have a KF of ≦0.2 w/w %. Approximately 15 mL of methanol is added to the solution. The temperature is maintained between 38 and 50° C. Approximately 1-1.2 molar equiv. of chlorotrimethylsilane is added to the free base solution at an incremental rate over 3-4 hours. It is preferred to add chlorotrimethylsilane at a very slow rate initially and at increasing rate as crystallization proceeds according to the cubic equation. Seeding is preferred for better control of crystallization and can be done before chlorotrimethylsilane addition. As the free base is converted to the hydrochloride salt, crystals are formed. The addition of chlorotrimethylsilane may be done at continuously increasing rate or alternatively in several addition stages each with fixed but successively higher addition rate.
The product is collected by filtration and washed with EtOAc. The product is dried in vacuo at 50° C. PPAR α/γ dual agonist salt intermediate A is obtained as an off-white crystalline solid at 98.1-99.3% purity and 80-92 M % yield.
The salt intermediate A is used in the synthesis of an active drug substance referred to as PPAR α/γ dual agonist compound as shown in the reaction set out below and as described in U.S. provisional application No. 60/572,397 filed May 19, 2004 which is incorporated herein by reference. The PPAR α/γ dual agonist compound is useful in managing Type II diabetes and dyslipidemia. It is designed to activate peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR) α(lipids/cholesterol lowering) and γ(insulin sensitizer).
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Collard acquires waste solutions company
By Leila Steed24 October 2019
(Left) Rob Collard, founder Collard Group with Adam Murnieks (right) managing director of Raymond Brown Waste Solutions
UK demolition and recycling company Collard Group has acquired Raymond Brown Waste Solutions (RBWS).
The deal, which includes RBWS's facilities, fleet and equipment, will see the company's reach extend across five counties in the south east of England, UK.
With nine recycling centres and services that include demolition, skip hire, haulage, aggregates and earthworks, the newly-combined business now comprises over 4,000 skips, 150 vehicles and over 400 staff. It is now also said to have a turnover in excess of £50 million (US$64 million).
Collard said the merger, which includes the integration of RBWS's staff and management team, would strengthen its position in the UK waste sector.
Rob Collard, founder and owner of Collard Group, said: "We felt there was great synergy between the two companies in terms of service profile as well as approach to recycling and sustainability."
Collard, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, said the acquisition marks a milestone in the company's history.
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Golongan pemuda-pemudi dalam novel Tamil Malaysia, 1970- 2010: Kajian perwatakan Suri Teladan dan Devian / Annadurai Murogaiah
Annadurai , Murogaiah (2018) Golongan pemuda-pemudi dalam novel Tamil Malaysia, 1970- 2010: Kajian perwatakan Suri Teladan dan Devian / Annadurai Murogaiah. PhD thesis, University of Malaya.
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This thesis is entitled 'The Youths in Malaysian Tamil Novels, 1970-2010: The Characterization of Exemplary Behavior and Deviance'. The objectives of this study are to identify the characteristics of exemplary and deviant behavior among youths in Malaysian Tamil novels, examines the identities of youths in the Malaysian Tamil novel and also analyzes the characterization of youths as bearers of the tradition, legacy and aspirations of the Tamil community. The methodology of this study is qualitative. A descriptive and analytical approach used was in this study. The library research were also used to collect the informations. Psychoanalysis theorist Sigmund Freud's and Erik Erikson's theories was used to analyze and discuss the texts and recognize the various characterizations. The study is divided into six chapters. Chapter one is the introductory chapter. The second chapter is a chapter on concepts and theory. Chapter three is a chapter that describes the history of Tamil novel development in Malaysia. Chapter four describes the characterization of exemplary youths in Malaysian Tamil novels. Chapter five discusses the characteristics of deviant youths. Chapter six is the concluding chapter. The overall findings show that the characteristics of the exemplary youths are uplifted and the behavior of deviant youths are shown as characteristics that need to be corrected. Exemplary characters are described as a youth group which has its own role and importance in the development of society and country. Exemplary youths are regarded as the current and future leaders who are required to move forward with maturity, high capacity, and motivation that is more positive and effective with stronger commitment. In addition, deviant youths are a group that needs to be observed and bettered. The Tamil community's hopes in exemplary characters are an inspiration to the generation of youths who are the bearers of tradition, heritage, and aspirations of society. Meanwhile, deviant characters are youths who must be corrected and returned to reality. This is because the awareness of youths is very necessary in supporting the ideals of building a respected and dignified nation.
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Duncan Prince – passionate about his new 'lorries'.
There was something very apt about Mitsubishi FUSO choosing the Maropeng Visitor Centre in the heart of the Cradle of Mankind World Heritage site for the October launch of its new range of trucks.
Part of the full range of new Mitsubishi FUSO models on display. Included was the Canter range upgraded in February this year.
I say this because it is at this centre that one comes to fully realise that advancement and progress , and indeed survival itself – comes about from adapting to changing circumstances. Let's go back in time'¦ It was about 7-million years ago that early hominids (your and my ancestors) began to adapt to a climate that was cooling globally. Africa had up to then been mostly covered in rainforest but as the temperature cooled and dried, savannah grassland started to replace the forests. This meant that tree-climbing apes had to become more adept at walking on land. If they didn't do this, they would die.
Although there must have been some stubborn old sods who preferred just hanging around the trees talking about the meaning of meaning, those who did adapt were able to walk out into the savannah and gather roots, shrubs and the occasional animal carcass. This ensured that those who walked on two legs were more likely to survive as they could now fetch and carry food to and from where it was most needed. It's a simple lesson , adapt or die. Looking back 7-million years ago, if mom and dad hominid hadn't adapted, you and I would not be here today.
Given all this, I found the theme for the launch of the new models, namely, The Evolution of Fetch and Carry, most pertinent.
A first! The FV26-420 model now takes Mitsubishi FUSO into the top end of the market hauling interlinks.
Going through the various model changes and spec sheets, it is clear that a huge amount of thought went into adapting the various models to suit changing circumstances and customer needs In the medium to heavy segment, you have the Mitsubishi FUSO FK/FM series where, depending on the model derivative, new common rail turbo-charged engines rated at 240 and 270hp are employed. These engines, all Euro 2 rated, are quieter and cleaner burning than the previous mechanically fuel injected range.
A first! The double cab FK 10-240 meets changing market needs.
The result of this improvement says Duncan Prince, product manager, Freightliner/Fuso Division of Mercedes-Benz South Africa, is that when run on the same road with the same payload at the same speed, improvements in fuel economy of between 3 and 5% can be expected on some models over their predecessors. Isn't it ironical that 7 million years ago our ancestors had to adapt to survive an era of global cooling. Now we're facing global warming and have to adapt our ways to survive this era. Improving fuel economy is one contribution the trucking industry can make to counter this threat ,and Mitsubishi FUSO is fully behind this move.
As Ian Riley, divisional manager, Freightliner/FUSO division, says: "We are committed to working in harmony with the environment and are committed to cleaner diesel engines, low fuel consumption and reducing noise pollution.'
The big news in the FK/FM model range is that for the first time, FUSO in South Africa is offering a double cab model – the FK 10-240 – a 10 400 kg model with seating for a driver plus six passengers. "This is ideally suited to breakdown operators who will be able to put the broken down vehicle on the back and accommodate up to six passengers in the double cab,' says Prince.
All controls are in easy view and reach of the '˜pilot'.
Prince and I were walking from model to model discussing the changes and adaptations to each and this FK 10-240 double cab served as a prime example of meeting the changed needs of customers. Apart from legislation now prohibiting the carrying of tools and crew in the same compartment, the dignity and comfort of workers also has to be taken into account by employers. In municipality type work, workers were in the past merely shoved on the back of a truck along with all the tools and often arrived on site sopping wet from the rain. That's just not on anymore and this double cab will now ensure that everyone stays not only dry but also safe.
Moving up to the '˜big '˜uns' the new Mitsubishi Fuso FP/FV range of extra heavy commercials embraces the over 16-ton gross vehicle mass (GVM) trucks, offering operators five models for varying heavy duty transport applications. The models, available in 4×2 or 6×4 configurations depending on application, range from 17,9 tons to 26 tons GVM and up to 56 tons gross combination mass (GCM).
Spacious and upgraded interior of the FV models.
The FP/FV range has also undergone an upgrade in the engine department and is now offered with 350 and 420hp engines. The pertinent point to note here is that the introduction of FUSO's first 420hp engine into the local market opens up a new avenue of opportunity for the company. "The previous model had a 340hp engine and could only pull a tri-axle. With the FV 26-420 truck tractor, we are now able to enter the top end of the long haul market where interlinks are the norm. This is exciting news for operators and for us,' says Prince.
Needless to say , as this must surely be a modern day given , all models are equipped with new modern cabs that offer improvements in driver comfort and ergonomics. Air conditioning is now standard fitment on these models , and so it should be.
There are many more refinements and enhancements which space does not permit us to go into. In my opinion though, add these models to the Mitsubishi FUSO Canter range which was upgraded in February this year and Mitsubishi FUSO has now arrived as a very serious contender in all sectors of the market. All that's missing is an automated gearbox.
C'mon Japan. You've got it. Let us have it. It's all good news for operators. It's all good news for South Africa.
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This workbook supplements the Self-Concept Game. It reinforces self-esteem by encouraging a realistic evaluation of strengths and weaknesses. The child learns to apply nine different kinds of self-talk: Accepting Compliments, Making Realistic Comparisons, Not Overreacting to Failure, Minimizing Criticism, Recognizing Strengths, Expecting What's Reasonable, Expecting Success, Praising Self, and Taking Credit.
Using self-talk, the student can improve his or her self-concept and sense of competence in relation to school, friends, sports, behavior, and physical appearance.
The Self-Concept Game is an excellent tool to improve self-esteem. This appealing board game is an great way to engage—and treat—children who are too old for puppets and toys, but too young to express themselves readily in therapy. It improves self-esteem by giving children a clearer, more realistic picture of themselves in five areas: Scholastic Competence; Social Acceptance; Physical Appearance; Athletic Competence; and Behavioral Competence. It helps them discover their strengths and teaches them strategies for maintaining and enhancing self-esteem.
This most engaging component of Berg's self-concept program clearly demonstrates the nine cognitive-behavioral principles taught by the game, workbook, and story cards. The DVD presents two vignettes for each skill and two scenes (positive and negative models) for each vignette. An accompanying manual provides scripts, so you can easily present the skits yourself if you prefer. Best used in tandem with at least one of the other self-concept tools by Berg, this is an ideal introduction to game playing or storytelling sessions, especially for younger children.
Here is the answer for client-centered therapists who want to add some structure to counseling sessions. Children's responses to the illustrations and your story prompts reveal needs and conflicts. You can then help youngsters revise their stories to express more adaptive values. This process fosters a transfer of learning to the child's own experience. Complements Berg's other self-concept materials, yet stands on its own as an outstanding therapeutic tool. |
The Scarlet Letter Society
McCarthy, Mary T.
Scarlet Letter Society members Maggie, Eva, and Lisa meet once a month to discuss literature and their complicated love lives while struggling to come to terms with their past and present choices.
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This is what really happens after 'I Do'
Meet Maggie, Eva, and Lisa, founders of The Scarlet Letter Society. Named as such due to their infidelities, physical and emotional, the "SLS" is these women's refusal to be shamed like Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale of forbidden longing. Maggie is twice-divorced and juggling three lovers — including her first ex-husband. Eva is trapped in a loveless marriage and has turned to her young intern and a seductive French chef for satisfaction. Lisa dreams of one day becoming a mother, but her husband has more romantic interest in her footwear than he does in her. Once a month, these women meet at their local bookstore to discuss love, life, and literature.
Through their friendships and liaisons, they attempt to gain insight into the curveballs life has thrown their way, and how each of them can find emotional and sexual fulfillment. A witty, insightful, and steamy novel about a group of women who have chosen to forge their own paths, and must deal with the ramifications of their past and present choices, The Scarlet Letter Society is for anyone who's found their fairy tale isn't quite what Disney had in mind.
Publisher: New York, New York : Polis Books, 2014
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The climate in the Middle East and North Africa is warming up twice as fast as the average global temperature rise, but in Iraq, this is happening two to seven times faster. Although drought is a natural phenomenon in the region, global warming is adding to the challenge for people living there to adapt to water scarcity. In its latest report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change marked the region as being extremely vulnerable to climate change, mainly due to rising temperatures and declining water resources. The region's recurrent violence due to political conflicts and wars further complicates an adequate response to these problems.
Climate-induced conflict
A well-known example of a climate-induced conflict is embodied in the 2018 protests which took place in Basra, southern Iraq, where extreme heatwaves eventually led to the deterioration of the water supply in the city's main river, the Shatt al-Arab. The violent protests against the dire situation were led by the youth and culminated into a series of protests across the country known as the Tishreen Movement – grassroots protests started in 2019 and have been demanding major economic, social and political reforms. Climate change is thus not the only culprit that is causing problems with water supplies and related issues like water pollution and desertification. These problems result from a series of interrelated issues, ranging from poor water governance to institutional corruption.
Despite the recent efforts of the Iraqi government to ratify the Paris Agreement and heighten the ambition at the COP26, the past decades of inaction continues to frustrate Iraqi climate activists. This can be attributed to a preoccupation with armed and political conflicts within the country and the failure to recognize climate change as being a security threat to Iraq. Motivated by concerns about their future, several NGOs and campaigns led by the youth have initiated projects in the field of plantation, monitoring, and raising awareness. However, these efforts are not sufficient to stop the trend of the devastating climate-induced impact which, for instance, widespread desertification and salt-water intrusion have on the lives of the citizens of southern Iraq. In the last twenty years the number of citizens of the city of Basra, the second-largest city in Iraq, has increased to around three million people. Although agriculture is not the largest economic sector in this region, the area of greater Basra hosts numerous farming communities. Because of the desertification, these communities find it increasingly hard to survive on the revenues from agricultural activities. Mostly in southern Iraq, the country loses 250 square kilometres of arable lands each year, forcing many farmers to migrate to urban areas.
Paying a heavy price
Feeling compelled by the urgency of the situation, climate and environmental activists put pressure on the authorities and plea for support from the international community. The activists showcase the effects of climate change on farming communities and urban settings by tracing stories of individuals from the southern parts of the country, including the marshes, and by using simple tools such as mass media platforms. They eventually succeeded in bringing international and local attention to the grave impacts of climate change, but some paid a heavy price for their efforts. Many activists took part in the Tishreen Movement and its call for reforms and, as a result, are being regarded with suspicion by the Iraqi government and non-state armed groups. They have been threatened, sometimes kidnapped, and even killed. Coupled with limited funds and capacity issues, climate activism in Iraq has become a very harsh undertaking indeed. This situation is blocking the chance of initiating climate adaptation, climate mitigation, and connecting with international donors. In other parts of the world, climate activists often face harsh realities as well, but compared to these other countries, the situation in Iraq is very grim as not only are the activists under threat but so are their families.
Climate-related migration
Migration to the urban centres in Iraq has been ongoing for decades, driven either by the loss of livelihoods within the farming communities or by declining water supplies in small towns. In recent years this trend has become the norm and it has led to an increase in social and economic tensions between the newcomers and the original inhabitants. Urban centres, like Basra and Baghdad, were already struggling with deteriorating water and power infrastructure making the limited efforts of the local NGOs to guide policies ineffectual. Incidental reports indicate a decline in employment rates among the newcomers which increases the possibility that they gravitate towards criminal or militia groups.
Indicators of migration towards regions and countries that are less climate-stressed have also been registered despite a lack of data. However, it is unclear whether climate migrants will be able to leave Iraq for Europe and it is unlikely that they will be able to pay human traffickers the hefty amounts required. Nevertheless, recent events such as the desperate attempts of Iraqis to reach the European Union via Belarus, indicate there are many Iraqi migrants who want to build a new future for themselves in Europe. There is a growing uncertainty about how Europe is going to prepare itself for such a climate-refugee influx, especially since populism and semi-authoritarian regimes are on the rise here too. Moreover, the European continent itself is not immune to climate impact, and it might even face situations similar to the ones southern Iraq is having to deal with currently. It may help if European actors could reinforce collaboration and work with Iraqi civil society as well as with the Iraqi government in setting up early response plans and creating a safe environment for foreign investment in renewable energy. And, most importantly, supporting capacity building in the field of climate activism, ensuring the safety of climate activists and raising awareness with Iraqi politicians. Instead of having to fear for their lives, the Iraqi climate activities should be ensured of support. Climate change is not a partisan issue, but one that affects us all.
By Maha Yassin
This article was first published in Idee magazine on 29 December 2021.
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GarageGames was founded by four industry veterans in 2001 with the goal of disrupting the games industry with quality development tools and "upsetting the dominant retail / publisher distribution model." Their licensees include big names like Electronic Arts, IBM, Sony, Microsoft, and NASA, to name a few.
Their Torque gaming engine technology is available for nearly every platform. Supporting both 2D and 3D games, it is one of the most licensed engines in the games industry.
What more appropriate platform for a new type of game –- one that is not designed by any one game designer –- but one that algorithmically combines the game play experiences of thousands of players to create a new game.
Instead of capturing only the words that users type into the game, Roy and Orkin record interaction traces, which track the series of linked behaviors and utterances extracted from each player session. For example, a trace might capture a customer leaving a big tip for an especially good steak that the waitress delivers quickly. Traces are combined to form a statistical model that can be thought of as a generalized script of typical restaurant behavior and dialogue.
This is a game that designs its own AI agents by observing the behavior of humans.
The Restaurant Game takes about 10 minutes to play and is available free here http://therestaurantgame.net for both Windows and Mac OSX.
According to its download site, Facade is "an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyperlinked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama." It is both a video game and a work of art — an interactive experience in which the content has been heavily influenced by Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Façade's authors, Andrew Stern and Michael Mateas, are self-described "artist-programmers."
Unlike Roy and Orkin, Stern and Mateas did not start with a commercial gaming platform like Torque. They spent more than two years constructing their own programming language, ABL ("A Behavior Language"). ABL is sophisticated enough to decide how a particular character might simultaneously mix a drink, walk across the room, and yell at her husband –- just as a human actor might do.
Stern and Mateas combined ABL with a "drama engine" to create a radically new genre, one where the software looks at what the player and characters are doing and makes plot and dialogue choices. They've also created a game for people who hate most types of gaming — the kind of people who hate violence or who would prefer to watch 30 Rock than play Grand Theft Auto.
This is a game that adapts its characters to real-world human situations based on its audience.
With games like Facade and The Restaurant Game, it's easy to imagine AI agents that both learn from the people who interact with them and that can react with human-like adaptability to whatever situation they're thrust into –- creating instant drama and never-ending variations in play. You may end up learning as much from them as they do from you.
Could be interesting for psychologists.A PI is very handy and easy to understand, but hardly documented at all.It looks exciting.
Hmm!. I am certain the young market will enjoy the concept of building a real scene with intimate behaviors as directed by their input. Could be interesting for psychologists.
I really like the restaurant game video the best. Very clever indeed, thank you!
Wow these are really amazing. Who would have thought that games could take information like that and basically change with the flow of how it's played. I'm going to go check out the restaurant game now – I love free games online!
I always thought it would be interesting to create a project like this with a chat engine. Take a major chat engine and have a "Submit to AI" option where the AI would parse the conversation between you and a friend so it can record questions and responses in an overlapping matrix of possibilities and calculate the probability of what the response should be by historical conversations of the same nature. You should get impressive test results with a large enough set of data. |
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UAE agrees to roll over crisis-stricken Pakistan's debt, add $1 billion more
The UAE has agreed to lend Pakistan additional financial support as the South Asian country reels under a worsening financial and economic crisis, exacerbated by last year's unprecedented floods.
Pakistan is grappling with a major foreign exchange crisis, holding enough reserves to pay for just three weeks of imports [Getty]
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to roll over $2 billion owed by Pakistan and provide the country with an extra loan of $1 billion, Islamabad said Thursday.
The agreement comes as Pakistan grapples with a major foreign exchange crisis, holding enough reserves to pay for just three weeks of imports.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in the UAE earlier Thursday for talks with top Gulf officials to seek help for the battered economy.
We express our profound gratitude to H.H. President Sheikh @MohamedBinZayed for his decision to roll over $2 billion & provide additional $1 billion. This support will help us tide over economic difficulties. We are deeply touched by kind gesture of our Emirati brothers & sisters
— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) January 12, 2023
"The UAE president agreed to roll over the existing loan of US$2 billion and provide a US$1 billion additional loan," a statement from Sharif's office said.
"Both sides agreed to deepen the investment cooperation, stimulate partnerships and enable investment integration opportunities between the two countries."
The statement did not provide the terms of the loan agreement.
Pakistan's national debt stands at $274 billion - or nearly 90 percent of gross domestic product.
The nation's forex reserves have dwindled to less than $6 billion, with obligations of more than $8 billion due in the first quarter alone.
Saudi Arabia could up investment in Pakistan to $10 billion
A $7 billion loan agreement with the IMF - about half of which has already been disbursed - has stalled because Pakistan has not fully implemented tough economic measures including slashing subsidies and raising taxes.
The economy has also been hammered by devastating monsoon floods that left almost a third of the country under water last year, and the government says it needs more than $16 billion over the next three years to rebuild.
Islamabad won some relief earlier this week when nations pledged over $9 billion to help with recovery efforts.
The UAE has sought to expand its influence inside and outside the Middle East region, including through Pakistan's Gwadar port.
The Gulf state has expanded its economic and military presence in ports across the Red Sea and South Asia region.
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Premium Italian publisher, Gruppo 24 ORE, in partnership with Zodiak Advertising has announced the launch of the first Italian automated advertising platform: Premio.
With Premio, Zodiak Advertising has taken one of Italy's largest, premium publishers and created a private marketplace, providing agencies and trading desks with a view of Gruppo 24 ORE's network of online inventory and the ability to trade programmatically. The benefits that the private marketplace also introduces are access to the best inventory across Italy's premium sites and the provision of a premium service to manage and optimise campaigns.
Using Gruppo 24 Ore's digital Websystem network, Premio allows Advertisers to run campaigns on targeted profiles through Real Time Bidding (RTB) and programmatic buying. The WebSystem network is made up of 21 publishers – ranging from news to entertainment providers – with an audience of 1.2 million daily unique users and 8 million daily pages views. The network includes Il Sole 24 Ore, number one Italian business newspaper.
Luca Paglicci, Director of WebSystem, commented: "We have launched Premio as we want to provide our clients with a service that allows them to target campaigns at particular audiences on premium sites, taking advantage of all the financial benefits of new technological platforms while minimising the risks that can be encountered by using automated systems.
Andrea Campana, SVP at Zodiak Advertising, added: "Our partnership with WebSystem is, for Zodiak, the natural evolution of a journey which started over a year ago. It is not merely a financial agreement, but rather a relationship between two cultures, working together to modernise buying and selling advertising space, in a safe way to safeguard the interests of both clients and publishers. |
Hulu, Netflix and Amazon's battle for childrens programming has become just as heated as the one over shows for adults. Today, Hulu landed a big coup in its bid to attract kids to its service: a new deal to stream Disney Channel programming, which has traditionally aired on Netflix.
The company announced the deal with the Disney-ABC Television Group for the exclusive SVOD rights to past seasons of seven Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD series.
The deal includes Disney Channel's K.C. Undercover, Dog With a Blog and Austin & Ally, Disney XD's Gravity Falls and Star vs. The Forces of Evil, and Disney Junior's Sheriff Callie's Wild West and Henry Hugglemonster. Previous seasons will be available to stream later this month, with subsequent seasons added the day after the last episode of each season airs.
The agreement also covers non-exclusive rights to more than 20 Disney Channel Original Moves, including Cloud 9, Teen Beach Movie and Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama.
It's Hulu's largest deal yet for Disney Channel programming, which usually migrates to Netflix after being available on Disney's apps and platforms. In March 2015, Hulu had licensed Disney Junior's DocMcStuffins and Bunnytown, but this is the first time the service had landed SVOD rights to Disney Channel or Disney XD content.
Today's deal "helps complete the portfolio of our kids series," said Lisa Holme, vp, content acquisition for Hulu, and caps a year-long effort to expand Hulu's childrens programing offerings. In April 2015, Hulu partnered with Cartoon Network for SVOD rights to shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Dexter's Laboratory. Last October, it expanded its partnership with Viacom for exclusive current and former Nickelodeon shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Penguins of Madagascar, as well as nonexclusive rights to shows like SpongeBob SquarePants and Ren & Stimpy. In March, it landed exclusive SVOD rights to PBS Kids' Curious George.
With each of Hulu's new deals for kids programming, "the viewership of the entire category just keeps going. We haven't hit diminishing returns yet," said Holme. "It's one of our priorities because we're trying to make Hulu a really satisfying product for the whole home, and the more folks within a household that are using Hulu, the better."
"The more people that are in the household using our subscription that love us, the better chance we have of keeping them around for a long, long time," said Holme.
Especially now that Hulu now offers programming for fans for all the major kids networks. "Some households are Nickelodeon households, some households are Cartoon Network households, some households are Disney households," said Holme. "It helps with one of our strategies, which is to make sure that we have programming for kids of all ages and stages. They grow up pretty rapidly and they might age out of a preschool show in three years and we really want to have the next thing that they'll be interested in, and the next thing."
To that end, today's deal came together because Hulu was initially looking to add more girls-oriented live-action programming to its slate, which it found in Disney Channel's Austin & Ally and K.C. Undercover. "That's filling out an area of our content portfolio which we didn't have as well represented," said Holmes.
Netflix also made some big moves today to boost its kids programming lineup. The streaming service announced five new original animated series for kids—including Skylanders Academy (based on the Skylanders) video game and Llama Llama (based on the book series)—while renewing Kong: King of the Apes for a second season.
On Friday, Amazon will post pilots for six new potential kids series—the live-action Sigmund and the Sea Monsters and animated The Curious Kitty and Friends, Jazz Duck, Morris and the Cow, Toasty Tales and Little Big Awesome—and ask viewers to vote on which shows should be picked up to series. |
When Foster and Partners published their plan to build a long, space-age stalk of a building in the City last autumn, reaction ranged from horror to cries of joy. The Tulip, as the planned structure is known, promises a bulbous viewing spot over 300 metres tall looking down at the Gherkin next door. There are hopes that it will attract more visitors to the Square Mile. Maybe one day it will, but it will first need to clear some barriers at City Hall.
A project this large has to be referred to the London Mayor, initially in the persons of the GLA Planning Unit. They have raised a number of objections. The first one listed in their stage one report is the failure of the proposal to "provide free-to-enter publicly accessible viewing areas," putting it at odds with both the current London Plan (produced under Boris Johnson) and Sadiq Khan's draft new one. The Tulip is further described as potentially compromising appreciation of the Tower of London, a World Heritage Site, and causing "harm to the historic environment".
Then there's the design of the mighty flower. "The height appears unjustified," says the report. "The site layout and loss of public realm at street level is also of significant concern." In addition, certain "strategic views" would be harmed and the plans would not reflect the Mayor's "healthy streets" strategy, the GLA officers say. Each of these points are elaborated at some length.
Updated on 29 January 2019 to include The Tulip Project response. |
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Thanks for for reply Allan. I'll think about what you said and report back on how things progress. A 34 to replace the 37 could be a good idea.
What about ebony (and ivory! LOL)? It looks great, a little darker than zebrano.
BTW, I read your blog with growing excitement and look forward to seeing your new melodica.
If the melodica gets very dirty, you can remove the case to clean it separately. (Follow the instructions on "How to tune a melodica"). Don't clean the reed plates – you can instead gently 'ping' (flick) each reed tongue a couple of times to remove any encrustations of saliva. Do this also if you have a note which isn't sounding. |
Heike Zornow (* 20. März 1970 in Berlin) ist eine ehemalige deutsche Handballspielerin, die während ihrer Laufbahn für die deutsche Nationalmannschaft auflief.
Karriere
Zornow spielte anfangs beim TSV GutsMuths Berlin. Später wechselte sie in den Jugendbereich vom VfL Oldenburg, mit dem sie drei Mal die deutsche Jugend-Meisterschaft gewann. Im Jahre 1989 schloss sich die Torhüterin dem Bundesligaaufsteiger TSV Tempelhof-Mariendorf an. Später wechselte sie zum Bundesligisten SC Magdeburg. Nachdem Magdeburg 1996 abstieg, wechselte Zornow zum Erstligisten HSG Herrentrup-Blomberg. Nach einer Babypause kehrte sie 1999 zum VfL Oldenburg zurück. 2007 beendete Zornow ihre Karriere in Oldenburg, übernahm im Februar 2008 beim Regionalliga BV Garrel das Torwarttraining und war dort zusätzlich als Jugendtrainerin aktiv. Als im April 2008 dem Zweitligisten Borussia Dortmund nur noch eine Torhüterin zur Verfügung stand, wurde Zornow bis zum Saisonende 2007/08 verpflichtet. Mit ihrer Unterstützung stieg Dortmund in die Bundesliga auf. Der Zweitligist SC Markranstädt reaktivierte sie nochmals im Jahre 2009.
Heike Zornow bestritt insgesamt 18 Länderspiele für die deutsche Nationalmannschaft. Bei der Weltmeisterschaft 1990 belegte sie mit Deutschland den 4. Platz.
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Handballtorwart (SC Markranstädt)
Handballtorwart (VfL Oldenburg)
Handballtorwart (SC Magdeburg)
Handballtorwart (HSG Blomberg-Lippe)
Handballtorwart (Borussia Dortmund)
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Gauchos Hold On for 2-Shot Victory at UCSB Collegiate Tournament
The Gauchos won the 2019 UCSB Collegiate by two shots over UC Riverside. (Photo by Alan Way)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - With the wind howling and leading by a mere two shots, UC Santa Barbara seniors Zach Smith and Brett Bennett each calmly sank par putts on the 18th hole to help the Gauchos hold on for an 868-870 victory over UC Riverside in the 2019 UCSB Collegiate Golf Tournament on Tuesday at Sandpiper Golf Course.
The Gauchos, who entered the day with a 7-shot lead over Weber State, were one of the final three teams off the tees in the third and final round. With the wind blowing harder and harder as the afternoon wore on, it was challenge to hang on for the victory.
"Zach and Brett each hit really big putts for us at the end," said head coach Steve Lass. "Zach's first putt on 18 was almost perfect and he gave himself a short one to end it. Brett's final putt was from about 10 feet in tough conditions. This was a good win for us."
Smith, who held the individual led for much of the final round, settled for a 1-under par 215, tying for second with Cal Poly's Tanner Podres and Cal Baptist's Ben Hallam. The trio at 1-under each finished two shots back of Andrew Spilman of UC Riverside who finished with a 3-under par 213. Bennett tied for eighth-place with a 2-over par 218.
UCSB (+4) and UC Riverside (+6) were followed by Weber State, which finished with a 7-over par 871. UC San Diego (+11, 875) and Cal Baptist (+12, 876) rounded out the top-five.
Brandon Bueno, playing as an independent, was the Gauchos' next highest finisher with a 4-over par 220, good for 17th-place. Justin Sheparovich tied for 23rd with a 7-over 223, while Brandon Jacobs and Ryan Cuenca each carded an 8-over par 224, tying for 25th. Cuenca was competing as an individual. Matt Moomjian and Tyler See each finished with an 11-over par 227 to tie for 33rd. Finally, Keith Moles, competing as an indy, tied for 36th with a 12-over par 228.
UCSB returns to action at the 2019 Big West Golf Championship on Monday and Tuesday, April 29-30. This year's tournament will be held at Wailua Golf Course - Lihue, Kauai, Hawai'i. |
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Parents' Marriage Colors What Millennials Expect
New research suggests the marital expectations of millennials appear to hinge on how their parent's marriage turned out.
Daughters and sons of mothers who tied the knot young are more likely to want to marry early too, but only if Mom stayed married. Conversely, millennials whose moms divorced tend to want to move more slowly, perhaps in the interest of avoiding the mistakes of their parents.
In the study, Ohio State investigators discovered potential brides and grooms appear to be heavily influenced by their mothers' marriages, divorces, and choices to live with a partner.
Researchers analyzed data from a new nationwide study that included 2,581 moms and 3,914 of their children.
Children whose moms wed young and stayed married were eager to marry in their late teens or early 20s themselves, the researchers found. Not so, however, for sons and daughters whose moms married young but then divorced — they still overwhelmingly hoped to marry, but they wanted to do it later.
"After witnessing their parents' divorce, the children of divorce may feel the need to take extra time and care in choosing a partner," researchers wrote in the Journal of Family Psychology.
The later marital expectations for kids of divorced moms may hold some good news, said Rachel Arocho, the study's lead author and a research fellow in human development and family science at Ohio State.
"Those who wait longer are more likely to have lasting unions when and if they do marry," she said.
"For those parents who divorced it is kind of nice to think that your offspring may avoid the same problems by taking longer to find a partner."
Kids of moms who moved in with a partner after divorce had lower expectations that they would ever marry.
"That may be because they have seen that marriage is not the only pathway for a committed romantic relationship," said Dr. Claire Kamp Dush, senior author of the study.
The Ohio State team used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, a national survey of people who were between 14 and 21 years old when they were first interviewed in 1979, and from follow-up surveys with their children.
The NLSY79 is conducted by Ohio State's Center for Human Resource Research for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
About 88 percent of the offspring interviewed in the mid-1990s when they were between 13 and 24 years old said they thought they would marry. Their average desired age of marriage was 25.
Almost 40 percent of their mothers had divorced after an average marital age of 20.
Researchers say it is important to assess marital timing because of its connection to the health of the union and the chances it will end in divorce. Those who divorce face higher risks to their mental and physical health, Kamp Dush said.
And, those who wait to get married tend to be more mature and bring better relationship skills to the table, she said.
But, as she and Arocho write in the paper, "It is important to note that delaying marriage past the early- to mid-20s is not necessarily a prescription for marital success."
Some research has found that there is little additional divorce-prevention benefit to marrying past ages 22 to 25.
Overall, Americans are marrying later. The median age of first marriage was 29.2 for men and 27.5 for women in 2013, according to the National Center for Family & Marriage Research.
But as many as a quarter still marry much earlier, and understanding the influences that play into those decisions can help guide efforts to counsel young brides and grooms so that they might have happier, healthier marriages, Arocho said.
In the new study, the researchers found that moms' experiences also played a role in kids' cohabitation experiences. If mothers divorced, millennials were more likely to move in with a partner at a young age.
Between 2006 and 2010, most men (82 percent) and women (74 percent) had experienced cohabitation as their first union.
Knowing what influences the romantic plans and goals of teens and young adults is important for those seeking to prepare young people for fulfilling relationships, Arocho said.
Source: Ohio State University
Nauert PhD, R. (2018). Parents' Marriage Colors What Millennials Expect. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 21, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2016/07/14/millennials-marriage-expectations-tied-to-parents-experience/107141.html
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Nanzhang Chengguanzhen (kinesiska: 南漳城关镇) är en häradshuvudort i Kina. Den ligger i provinsen Hubei, i den centrala delen av landet, omkring 270 kilometer nordväst om provinshuvudstaden Wuhan. Antalet invånare är .
Runt Nanzhang Chengguanzhen är det ganska tätbefolkat, med invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Wu'an, km sydost om Nanzhang Chengguanzhen. Trakten runt Nanzhang Chengguanzhen består till största delen av jordbruksmark.
Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är augusti, med i genomsnitt mm nederbörd, och den torraste är december, med mm nederbörd.
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Serco and DecisionBrain worked together to optimize the London Cycle Hire Scheme. With over 12,000 bikes and 800 stations, it is one of the largest city bike hire schemes in the world. DecisionBrain developed an optimization software to assist Serco in their daily task of distributing bikes across stations, ensuring that contractual KPIs were met.
London Cycle Hire Scheme experienced a record hire month in November with very good full and empty distribution metrics.
Head of Operations, Serco
User Friendly Interface
The design of the software for Serco had to be tailored to the needs of planners. Having a simple and intuitive solution was key to ensure the Serco team to quickly getup to speed and train new planners. The interface was designed to allow planners to focus on the most pressing decisions, leveraging features such as color coding, real-time status docking, status/trend visualization, 24-hour forecasting charts and more.
It's intuitive, easy to use. We can make quick and better decisions, even under pressure. It allows even new starters to hit the ground running.
Control Centre Manager, Serco
Key Successes
Tailoring the solution to the specific needs of the end-users and keeping complexity transparent to the planners by offering a simple and crisp UI, were critical project success factors t. From a technical standpoint, combining sophisticated Optimization techniques with Machine Learning Forecasting was key to achieve results. The project was implemented in August 2017 and had measurable results by October 2017 with a record hire month, followed by a second record hire month in November. According to Serco, DecisionBrain's Solution led to very positive and quantifiable results.
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Bernard Joecel Forbes (born March 27, 1998) is a Filipino actor. He first appeared on TV as a contestant in That's My Boy on Eat Bulaga!.; however, he become a finalist and also he didn't win.
Career
After his stint on That's My Boy, he found fame through a Tide commercial in which he played a character named Tolits. He soon became one of the hosts of GMA Network's Eat Bulaga!.
Apart from Eat Bulaga!, he has appeared in TV shows such as Ful Haus, Encantadia, Etheria, and Fantastikids. He has also been featured in movies such as Ispiritista: Itay, may moomoo!—for which he won the Best Child Actor award in the 24th Luna Awards--Exodus: Tales from the Enchanted Kingdom, Enteng Kabisote 3, Paraiso, Dobol Trobol, and Ded Na si Lolo. He has also lent his voice to the character of Botyok in the animated movie Urduja.
Filmography
Film
Television
Discography
Tolits - Dance Hits (2006)
Accolades
Awards and nominations
External links
1998 births
Living people
People from Rizal
Filipino male child actors
Filipino male television actors
Filipino male voice actors
Filipino male film actors
Filipino television variety show hosts
GMA Network personalities
TV5 (Philippine TV network) personalities
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Q: Error when using lightning:FileUpload I can getting a weird error after uploading a file using the lightning:fileUpload component. After a file is uploaded a "Sorry to interrupt" prompt pops up with the error
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there was something bad reviers about this game ealier, but its seen its not a issue anymore at all. Moved to offtypic.
Accidentaly found this while searching for "Steam".
Didn't realise this was out.
I had a the privilege meet both Dini and Jon.
Hey Okee - are you Irish too?
That meetup was in Athlone wasn't it?
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Early detection of Parkinson's via AI (and a surprising medium); Ed Marx on the digital transformation (or not) of health systems and COVID treatment at home
Somewhat off our normal beat….but of interest.
Ardigen and The BioCollective are collaborating on early detection research for Parkinson's Disease, based on a microbiome-based biomarker. Ardigen has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Microbiome Translational Platform. The BioCollective has a bank of metagenomic and patient metadata generated from an unexpected source: Parkinson's patients' stool samples. Release
The BioCollective is headed by Martha Carlin, who came from well outside of healthcare and pulled together a research group to address her husband's diagnosis. A visit to this website is worth an examination on how these samples are collected for microbiome extraction. An interesting twist is the marketing of a probiotic mix developed using their BioFlux metabolic model for 'gut health'.
Ed Marx, the former CIO of the Cleveland Clinic, has written a new book, 'Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology, and the Pandemic are Accelerating the Future'. It's billed as a wake-up call for healthcare systems and hospitals under challenge by Big Retail, Big Pharma, and Big Tech. This Editor met Mr. Marx when he premiered his entertaining memoir, 'Extraordinary Tales from a Rather Ordinary Guy', a few years ago. On treatment for COVID patients, except for the very sickest, he advocates it being done from home. From the release: "When the pandemic hit, a lot of progressive organizations would send most of their Covid patients home with monitoring equipment hooked up to phones unless they needed a ventilator. It's a lot cheaper than staying in the hospital."
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Tags: AI, Ardigen, Ed Marx, health systems, Parkinson's, and The BioCollective. |
My colleague Melody Lauer posted an interesting question on Facebook.
What malfunction to shot ratio would you accept on a carry gun (without said malfunctions being purposefully induced)?
Since this had been a topic of conversation with another colleague only a few days before, I posted the answer we both agreed on.
"How many magazines come with the gun? … It needs to be 100% reliable for the number of rounds in the magazine(s) that come with it or how many a person carries, assuming the person even bought a spare magazine. More than that is superfluous. For many autoloaders now that means one magazine plus the round in the chamber.
I was unsurprised when many folks responded, in generally polite ways, that I was crazy. Most of the cognoscenti want to run at least 1,000 rounds through a carry gun before they 'trust' it. My comment relating to 'Arbitrary Reliability Assessments' was pure heresy. There was also a considerable amount of mathematical 'logic' in the discussion that I found obtuse. For instance, if a gun could be expected to have 5 malfunctions out of 1,000 rounds, it could also be expected to have 1 malfunction per magazine. That was difficult for me to understand but I was told that I just don't understand math and statistics. If I'm going to have one malfunction per magazine, I'll just keep carrying a revolver.
1,000 rounds of what kind of ammo?
Addressing those questions in order brings some other thoughts to mind.
Ball or duty ammo? Often, guns shoot well with some ammo and other ammo, not so much. Because of that fact, running 1,000 rounds of ball through a gun and then a box of duty ammo through it doesn't seem to me to accomplish any more than shooting the box of duty ammo alone. So, in the case of a Glock 19, 15 times 3 plus 1 = 46 rounds. Three magazines for those who like to carry two spares. That leaves 4 rounds out of a box. Always save the last one for yourself. Some folks are such terrible shots they better save two.
Under what conditions? Unlike wheelguns, autoloaders are subject to the vagaries of the person/machine interface. That's largely the crux of the reliability question.
Is the 1,000 rounds to be shot in casual range shooting with no pressure? I can't count the number of people shooting IDPA matches who have said to me "I don't understand it, Claude, my gun never malfunctions when I shoot it for practice." Even small amounts of stress can have an effect on how the shooter holds and fires the gun. Perhaps it would be a good idea to involve at least some significant percentage of the test under conditions that might induce a malfunction, such as a State or Area Championship? Yeah but shooting competition will get you 'killed on the streetz.' Or maybe all 1,000 rounds should be shot under extreme pressure, such as the first two to three days at the elite Rogers Shooting School?
Is the 1,000 rounds going to be shot with both hands? One of the things I noticed at Rogers was how many more malfunctions occurred during one handed shooting. Should the 1,000 rounds involve some shooting with Dominant hand only? How about the Support hand only?
Since 'everyone starts moving after the first shot,' how much of the 1,000 rounds is going to be shot while shooting on the move? It's probably a good idea to shoot some Box Drills and Figure 8s as part of the testing process. Perhaps including a 50/25/25 percent mix of Freestyle/Dominant hand only/Support hand only during at least half of that 1,000 rounds should be the protocol.
Magazines are often the weakest link in the reliability of any autoloader. Doing a reliability test with 'training' magazines and then switching to magazines 'reserved' for carry defeats the entire purpose of the test. It's completely non sequitur.
But if a person only has three 'carry' magazines, that means the test may involve dumping them on the ground somewhere around 20 times apiece. How comfortable are you with those magazines after they've been beaten up a bit? You tell me, it's your decision.
How many people who carry a Backup Gun run the 1,000 rounds through it? Especially for those using small autoloaders such as an LCP, my guess is almost none. If you don't run your Backup through the high round count protocol, do you still trust your life to it? If so, why is the main pistol any different?
I'm a firm believer that anyone who carries a pistol should have a spare. Regardless of the circumstances of a shooting, the police will take the pistol as evidence. If you don't have a spare, preferably identical to your carry gun, then you're going to have to go buy one and run it through the testing protocol before you can 'trust it.' Back to Square One.
I don't understand it, Claude, my gun never malfunctions when I shoot it for practice.
There are other considerations such as the effects of and on weapon mounted lights, lasers, or red dot sights, but that's gilding the lily perhaps.
For those who only have one gun, such as the great majority of gun owners, how long is it going to take to conduct this 1,000 round test? Even at 100 rounds a week, the test will take the better part of three months to conduct. In the meantime, how do you feel about the gun? Do you want to have that "I'm still not sure I trust this piece" feeling in the back of your head for three months? How will that affect the person/machine interface?
In the end, if shooting 1,000 rounds before you 'trust' the gun makes you feel better, then go for it. But if you don't design and follow a protocol that really relates to how you're likely to use the gun in a situation where you have to protect yourself or your loved ones, the whole exercise is just an excuse to go shooting. Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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Kiss and Make-Up (1934) Review
Proof That It's Pre-Code
And of course we see the girl take her clothes off.
Cary Grant runs a beauty clinic filled to the brim with gorgeous ladies begging him for advice and smiles. To one perspective client seeking console, he nods at her and instructs, "Take your clothes off please." And, of course, she undresses. He then asks her why she'd need work done, and she explains that she's actually there for consultation for her mother. "Why'd you take your clothes then?" She winks, "I thought you'd be interested to see how I look with out it."
The Pre-Code trick of nude ladies behind suspended sheets again.
Co-starring the Wampas Baby Stars of 1934: a bunch of fresh faced women paraded before the camera in all sorts of provocative positions. And, no, they're not actual babies.
Extramarital affairs are defensively referred to as "Lovely Episodes".
"Could you get us some wine like a good girl?"
"I'll get it, but I'm not sure it'll be like a good girl!"
The Most Beautiful Monster
"Men are selfish brutes, and they demand beauty."
"Hello, darling, I'm Cary Grant again. Smashing."
Kiss and Make-Up is, first and foremost, presents itself as a horror film version of a peculiar male fantasy. It presupposes the idea of being a God among women– to dictate how they look act and respond to you– but that, no matter how much control you have, that too much control realigns itself to become a new form of danger.
It's Frankenstein with a powder puff.
And it's a comedy. Mostly. Kind of. It tries. The completely hectic and unbound film structures of the 1930s proves to be a liability this go around, as we careen through the plot with reckless abandon, letting the human connections flounder at the expense of the outrageous.
Let me step back for a second and talk about the plot since I've managed to already extrapolate and bad mouth it without giving it a proper run around the track.
Tobin preys upon Grant's better sense.
The always unflappable Cary Grant, in one of his first leading roles, is Dr. Maurice Lamar, beautician to the world. He cries out to one unconvinced soul "Did you realize ugliness is a disease?!" and insists that he is the cure. His methods, emphasizing exercise, powders, creams and bits and pieces of cosmetic surgery, all come down to his urgent need to cure visceral flaws in all women.
Unfortunately his methods never extend below the skin, and what he hasn't realized is that physical beauty and mental beauty are two separate but important things.
These come in two separate but distinct packages, or so we're led to believe. Beauty is Dr. Lamar's masterpiece Eve Caron (Genevieve Tobin)– a woman he's taken in and redone, all the way down to adding dimples to her knees.
The secret longings of Helen Mack.
The brains is his secretary Anne (Helen Mack), one of those unfortunate female characters in the movies whose entire motivation is to say 'no' until the final act when, after all other possibilities are exhausted, she says 'yes'. I think some bigger brains in this one would have helped immeasurably.
As it is we've still got beauty, and Genevieve Tobin is a hell of a fearless comedienne. Eve's defection and devotion to Dr. Lamar has left her husband Marcel (Edward Everett Horton) in a bit of a tizzy, since he'd promised long ago to love her knees without the dimples. He sneaks into the beauty clinic, and, after getting more than an eyeful, decides to dump Eve on the doctor and make his way to divorce court.
Dr. Lamar instantly finds himself at the mercy of Eve's new freedom. He desperately tries to ward her off:
"There's nothing more I can do for you."
When he continues to push her away, all the while unable to overcome his own ego about how much he has managed to perfect her, she throws down with the ultimate threat:
"I shall get fat! In all the wrong places!"
Tobin's fanaticism here comes across as being very Norma Desmond-esque, adulating herself and nakedly craving identical adulation from her creator. Grant can't help but admit that he loves his monster, and they're soon married, to the further fuming consternation of Anne.
And what of Anne? As mentioned before, she's the flood that sinks the film's foundation. She doesn't buy into the beauty fad. Why? Because she's jealous of all the women who do, and jealous of the attention Dr. Lamar gives them. Out of spite, she's decided to look ordinary (or as ordinary as Helen Mack can look).
This robs the film of a lot of dramatic tension, since our female lead is trying to win the protagonist's heart by being as passive-aggressive as humanly possible. When the second act rolls around and she meets Marcel on her own and they develop a genuine rapport, it's hard not to more concretely root for that union.
I mean, who would say no to that?
The topper in that relationship is when this film does that strange Pre-Code thing where a musical number crops up about halfway through the movie with no prior or warning or much of a follow-up. Horton and Mack duet to a rather sweet little ditty called "Corned Beef and Cabbage", which is filled with warmth and good humor.
Meanwhile, Maurice has discovered that his perfect creation is just the monster we've been led to believe, as she generally makes him late to appointments, forces him to follow his own diet advice, has a secret lover, and, worst of all, won't sleep with him.
And while I'm sure plenty of my female readers will agree that they would never sleep with Cary Grant– well, at least at the moment– I doubt anyone will sympathize with Eve's vanity. She exits, and its up to Lamar to tear down his institute and win Anne back.
Because he was totally into her this entire time and didn't view her as being possibly just another conquest, you see. Totally.
Let's (Not) Make Love
"I would never have left my husband if I'd known you were so dull."
"What do you expect on lettuce?"
"Well, rabbits seem to do alright."
They've got legs, and they know how to exercise them.
Sex and beauty are the two most rampant themes here, as the still-new beauty industry is paraded before the camera with glee. This is one of two films that come from director Harlan Thompson, and his careful directorial plan seems to be to elevate the sexual images at every opportunity.
The most interesting way he does this is by starting off this film in the first person perspective. We see the action for the first ten minutes from Dr. Lamar's point of view, emphasizing the unlimited yield of his power. He sees acres and acres of nubile young flesh and his beck and call, and because of the perspective its being framed that the audience has this power as well.
Unfortunately this attempt to implicate the viewer fails; the oddities of this beauty institute, and the fact that, hey, all of these women are already beautiful, reveal it is a pretty craven and uninteresting male fantasy from the get go.
Grant's Lamar is also supposed to be a bit of a player, and we see him attempt to almost seduce Anne at one point by inviting her to his apartment for work and conveniently leaving photographs of lovers laying around with plenty of candies to spice up the affair.
He gets called away by Eve, but this scene– which may have worked if it weren't already obvious that Anne's resolve was about as thin as her characterization– ends up being completely flat. Nothing here indicates that he has any deeper feelings for Anne that don't originate from his crotch, and nothing from Anne gives her any drive to toy with.
She's seriously about two seconds away from marching down a staircase and thanking all those people out there in the dark.
Worse, the film doesn't blatantly reveal until the closing moments that Anne is just as facetious as Lamar, and the movie suffers for it. And by doing so it indicates the message of the movie may just be that ugliness is a disease, you just have to know when to treat and when not to.
That's dispiriting. The movie, which could have been a lampoon of the beauty industry or it could skew Lamar's self importance, instead seems to indicate him as correct, and paints women as being beauty obsessed or being beauty obsessed and not knowing it. The moral, as you'll sometimes get from movies in that day and age, boils down to 'bitches be crazy.'
Oh, god, but I don't care any more. The only real fun in Kiss and Make-Up comes from Tobin's demented take on the pinnacle of womanly beauty (and no argument here, by the way), and from Horton and Mack's early romantic interludes. Pro tip: Don't make the romance that's supposed to raise conflict in the main narrative be more romantic than anything in the main narrative.
It's weird to say, but Edward Everett Thornton is much more of a heartthrob here than Cary Grant, and that is… well, weird.
Trivia & Links
CaryGrant.net does a lot of the heavy lifting for me this week, as they include both the review from Variety and The New York Times. It looks like its Andre Sennwald handled the critique from the Times, and, I guess I'm just used to Mordaunt, but he's absolutely hilarious in vivisecting this one:
The picture entitled, with such knowing and antic humor, "Kiss and Make-Up" is a first-class lingerie bazaar and a third-class entertainment.
Categories1934, All Reviews, Comedy, Extramarital Sex, Indifference, Scantily Clad Women TagsCary Grant, Doris Lloyd, Edward Everett Horton, Genevieve Tobin, Harlan Thompson, Helen Mack, Katherine Williams, Lucien Littlefield, Lucille Lund, Mona Maris, Rafael Storm
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Tencent Music Entertainment and ZRTG Strengthen Their New Three-year Strategic Partnership
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SHENZHEN, China, June 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) and Zhejiang Radio & TV Group (ZRTG) have agreed to strengthen their three-year strategic partnership, deepening their commitment to upgrading the content and distribution channels of both platforms, breaking the collaborative model between TV network and internet enterprise.
TME partners with ZRTG, strengthens three-year strategic cooperation
The cooperation between the two technology and entertainment giants will bring diverse services and upgraded interactive features to users. Over the next three years, TME and ZRTG will carry out experiments on creating songs for movies and television and produce various original music shows, using the advantages of both platforms to help music brands grow. The partnership will also explore creative collaboration opportunities in the areas of advertising and marketing.
Cussion Pang, CEO of Tencent Music Entertainment Group
Cussion Pang, CEO of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, explained that the in-depth partnership with ZRTG will strengthen cooperation for both Tencent Music Entertainment and the TV network. "It will bring new opportunities for both parties in providing entertainment by more channels, creating cooperative production model with new Intellectual Properties (IPs), generating ideas for program cooperation and exploiting new advertising opportunities, which will enrich our content, and extend the eco-chain of the music industry, opening an amazing space for music and television."
Lv Jianchu, President (Chairman) of ZRTG
Lv Jianchu, President (Chairman) of ZRTG, said that both parties are excited about the partnership, as it provides more opportunities to develop and enhance the value of good content and Intellectual Properties (IPs). "As we move forward together, we'll develop programs with an eye towards coordinating the distribution of our IP across multiple media platforms, creating synergies between our TV network and Tencent Music Entertainment."
Wang Jun, Director of ZJSTV (left) and Andy Ng, Vice President of Tencent Music Entertainment Group (right)
While TME and ZRTG have collaborated at different levels over the years, achieving significant success in connecting the television with new media platforms, this new strategic partnership between TME and ZRTG is meant to provide new inspiration for the crossover of internet and traditional media, enabling both companies to succeed in content, channels and user experience.
TME and ZRTG hold the signing ceremony of strategic cooperation
As the leader in music-themed content production, ZRTG has developed popular variety of shows such as Sing! China, Sound of My Dream and New Year's Concert. Collaboration with TME comes naturally for them because their strategies for enhancing the value of their content align.
At the same time, TME has established a platform matrix for music with QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music, Wesing and Kugou Live Streaming, through which users can enjoy synchronized content streaming with no lagging, community engagement, and live karaoke and live broadcast with real-time interaction. With their focus on innovation and online distribution, TME can expand the coverage and influence of ZRTG's content.
About Tencent Music Entertainment Group
Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) is a leading provider of music entertainment services in China, a pioneer of digital music and a leading online music services company. The group includes music streaming businesses: QQ Music, Kugou Music and Kuwo Music; social music sharing platforms: Wesing, 5Sing; live broadcast entertainment businesses: Kugou Live and Kuwo Star; digital music content provider: Ultimate, and Tencent Musician, TME's original music platform, which provides the most extensive range of music in the Chinese-speaking world.
TME is dedicated to providing a full range of music services. It provides customers with a diverse range of high-quality music content and interactive product experiences including: audiovisual services, social music sharing platforms, karaoke, live music sharing platforms, live broadcasts, and amateur content creation. The group not only provides convenience to Chinese musicians, and a high-quality environment conducive to original creation, but also provides an extensive user promotion and creation platform to both Chinese and overseas content providers and producers.
About Zhejiang Radio and Television Group
Zhejiang Radio and Television Group (ZRTG) was established in 2001 in Hangzhou, China to expand the offerings of local TV channels across the province. Since then it has become the country's fourth-biggest television network, with 10 channels and 1 radio station, as well as a growing online presence. Its line-up has included smash nation-wide hits such as Sing! China, Sound of My Dream, and The Voice of China.
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Because bail can be costly, in many circumstances a person does not have the entire amount, or they are unable to get it from friends or family. In this case, a bond can be used to secure a release from jail. This means that a bond company pays the bail. A bond is essentially a loan that requires some sort of collateral to be put up, such as a car. The bond company will pay a percentage of the bail and will have to pay the rest if the defendant does not appear for trial.
If you or someone you know gets into trouble with the law and needs bail money, you have a couple of different options. You can use the money you have in your bank accounts and/or seek funds from other people. And while you may have enough to get out of jail, this may not be the best idea. If this completely taps you out, you will be out of jail, but this could put a severe strain on your day-to-day living expenses. This is why a bond could be your better choice. With a bond, the bond company puts up the money. As long as you have some collateral – which still stays in your possession – all you will be on the hook for is the bail bondsman's service fee, which typically is not that high. A bond gets you home quickly and does not take a chunk out of your finances.
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Swanepoel Management and Hubert Zandberg Interiors renovated the London residence of Shirin Elghanayan and her family. Here Elghanayan stands in her dressing room, which is furnished with a mirrored vanity and a Collection Pierre chair from David Sutherland; the curtains are of a Sahco fabric, and the carpet is by the Rug Company.
A Grand London Townhouse Receives a Luxe Update
Designer Hubert Sandberg gives the stately central London residence an elegant makeover with bespoke interiors
By Tristram Holland
Photography by Simon Upton
This article originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of Architectural Digest.
When Shirin Elghanayan says that she now has her dream house, she does so in a way that leaves no doubts—though it took nearly 20 years for the dream to come true. She and her husband had been in their central London residence for more than a decade, always wanting to revamp it, but only when their children were teenagers did it become clear that the gracious Georgian townhouse no longer suited the way the family lived. It had to change with them.
Learning of the Elghanayans' urge to renovate, a friend enthusiastically recommended interior designer Hubert Zandberg, and he grasped immediately what the couple wanted. To achieve what amounted to a complete overhaul, Zandberg joined forces with architectural designer Jan Swanepoel, a longtime collaborator. Elghanayan describes the two men, both from South Africa and based in London, as "a phenomenal team." Even though the Elghanayans are involved in real estate and "therefore understand the whole process—the drawings, the work, the budgets," as Swanepoel notes, it took a year of discussion and decisionmaking before construction could begin. And it was another two years before the project was finished.
Rebuilt in the 1920s, the townhouse endured a varied history—serving for a time as an embassy—and one of the few interior architectural features to survive intact was its stone staircase. While the building's façade is protected from alteration, the Elghanayans were free to make extensive changes within. Ultimately the staircase, an elevator, and a study that had been lined in Jacobean-style paneling by a previous owner were all they kept. The roughly 7,100-square-foot residence was reconfigured into distinct zones, with the street level dedicated to the entertaining spaces, the floors above containing the bedrooms, and the partially subterranean basement accommodating a casual family room and bar, a guest room, and a small gym.
On the ground floor and bedroom levels, Swanepoel devised an elegant yet disciplined shell that combines generous baseboards and orderly architraves with simple Georgian-style cornices (which cleverly conceal air-conditioning diffusers). To realize more modern and flexible spaces, Swanepoel increased the height and width of some key doorways. Now when the doors between the kitchen and the reception room are thrown open, for example, the ambience of the latter changes dramatically—its formality is sliced, and a sense of expansiveness is created. Enhancing the effect is the continuity of the pale walls and dark floors, the ebonized oak planks laid in the reception room blending seamlessly with the kitchen's slate pavers.
Artworks by Victor Vasarely and mirrors by Graham Harrison Framing overlook the room's sofas, which were custom made by Hubert Zandberg in a J. Robert Scott silk mohair; Zandberg also designed the fire screen, while the rug is by Stephanie Odegard Collection.
The kitchen is "very much the heart of the house," Elghanayan says. "Cooking is a passion of mine, and we eat at home at least a few times a week." With its opulent Calacatta-marble surfaces and meticulously crafted cabinetry, the kitchen is as striking as it is welcoming. The same could be said of the dining room, formerly the study, whose richly carved paneling was restored, painted gray, and accented with sleek, sculptural sconces by Hervé Van der Straeten and artworks by Matisse and Mustafa Hulusi. Although a fraction of the size of the Elghanayans' previous dining room, it has an intimacy that suits the couple: They like to entertain informally, typically hosting no more than a dozen friends.
Elghanayan worked closely with Zandberg on the decor throughout the residence, and the two settled broadly on a 1940s French aesthetic, partly because "it amalgamates so easily with other styles," says the designer. For the reception room, Zandberg conceived a pair of gently curving plush sofas, two broad, tufted ottomans, and a boldly patterned glass fire screen, grouping them with '40s French armchairs, Gio Ponti–style lacquer consoles, and elegant gesso-and-silver-leaf mirrors. With its rich variety of furnishings, the space emanates a sense of sumptuous ease, reinforced by the soothing, pared-down palette and graceful architectural framework.
Many of the elements employed on the ground floor—an abundance of antiqued mirror, glossy surfaces, subdued colors, intriguing textures, and bespoke furniture—can also be found upstairs.
The master suite, once the building's grand salon, is now an inviting retreat. Zandberg installed a magnificent laser-cut metal screen to delineate a soigné study space, furnished with silver-tone bookcases and a Louis XV–style desk, from the rest of the bedroom, which is anchored by a lavishly curtained four-poster. At the foot of the bed, he created a sitting area highlighted by a Jansen sofa and matching inlaid-Macassar-ebony cabinets, one of which conceals a television.
Little wonder the bedroom is the place Elghanayan loves most. She calls it "my sanctuary." His-and-her dressing rooms and baths complete the suite. Her bath in particular is unabashedly, gloriously glitzy—outfitted with crystal light fixtures and taps, richly veined marble, and gleaming mirrored surfaces. While Zandberg admits to adding "a heavy dose of bling here," he is right, too, that it "shouts craftsmanship." Indeed, at every turn, this house reveals masterful skills, its lyrical interiors a hymn to artisanal virtuosity.
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Dr. Jared Diamond on the Future of Human Rights
Celebrity scientist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Jared Diamond knows how to tackle big questions. His bestsellers, Collapse, and Guns, Germs, and Steel, have changed the ways we look at how societies thrive or fail and how we can maximize happiness while dodging ecological collapse. Now, in a brand new talk, Diamond enlightens audiences on the nature of basic human rights and how they will look in the future.
From the new speech topic:
Today, in Western democracies, we take for granted the idea that all humans enjoy certain universal rights--at least in theory. Those rights include the right to vote, to receive fair justice, to be treated decently as prisoners of war, not to be enslaved, and not to suffer group-based discrimination in applying to jobs or schools. Specifically, those rights are supposed to be shared by men and women, rich and poor, young and old; all people, regardless of family connections or social role or ethnicity or religion.
Although these rights now seem natural, we forget how absurd they would have seemed throughout most of human history, and how recent their acceptance even in Western democracies has been. Why, after tens of thousands of years in which it was taken for granted that different people have different rights, should the notion have arisen, just within the last couple of centuries, that all humans share basic rights? Why should this view have arisen first in Western Europe and its overseas daughter societies, rather than somewhere else, such as in India or China or among Native Americans, Africans, or Australians? Will there be even further broadening of human rights in the near future? What about rights of older people, prisoners, animals, and poor people in the developing world?
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Her office was forced to take down a summary of the bill because it contained a series of gaffes.
Those included anti-nuclear power language, a reference to "farting cows" and welfare for "unwilling" workers.
The Green New Deal resolution, which has more than sixty cosponsors in the House, does not have language ruling out nuclear or banning fossil fuels, but its accompanying FAQ actually did.
A Green New Deal is a massive investment in renewable energy production and would not include creating new nuclear plants. It's unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible.
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) moves through a group of reporters after a news conference for the proposed "Green New Deal" to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 7, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst.
"Realistically, you can't decommission a nuclear plant in ten years," Harrell told TheDCNF.
Harrell wasn't the only one to notice the discrepancy. Mike Shellenberger, founder of the pro-nuclear group Environmental Progress, called for Ocasio-Cortez do clear up the confusion.
Shellenberger pointed to the fact Ocasio-Cortez herself said at a Capitol Hill rally for the Green New Deal was about "transitioning to 100% renewable energy," despite the legislative text.
Energy expert Christopher Clack, who co-authored a comprehensive study on the feasibility of a 100 percent renewable grid, told TheDCNF that while he thought the legislative text was "ambitious and far-reaching," the FAQ complicated things.
Clack's study estimated that completely decarbonizing the grid, including the use of nuclear power and carbon capture, would cost somewhere between $20 trillion and $40 trillion by 2050.
Ocasio-Cortez's staff took out the anti-nuclear language from the FAQ posted on her congressional website. However, that FAQ page was taken down Thursday afternoon.
But those weren't the only changes made to the FAQ before it was taken down.
The FAQ also called for a "[b]uild out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary." Ocasio-Cortez's staff eventually deleted "farting" from the FAQ, but not before reporters found it.
Democrats were also hard-pressed to explain how Americans would phase out the internal combustion engine and what a world without air travel would look like. Also included in Ocasio-Cortez's FAQ was the promise of "[e]conomic security to all who are unable or unwilling to work," which was also missing from the legislation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the Green New Deal as a "suggestion," and named more members to the House climate change committee. Ocasio-Cortez was not named to the committee.
Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey introduced a companion bill in the Senate Thursday that was cosponsored by several Democratic 2020 hopefuls.
The Green New Deal's FAQ at least twice mentioned planting trees as a way to sequester carbon dioxide emissions and fight global warming. In fact, the FAQ says a Green New Deal would mean we "plant lots of trees" to reduce emissions.
"We believe the right way to capture carbon is to plant trees and restore our natural ecosystems. CCUS technology to date has not proven effective," reads the FAQ, referring to carbon capture technology.
"Planting trees is not going to eliminate or reduce emissions from a variety of point sources. In the end, you need carbon capture and nuclear to meet emissions goals," Harrell said. |
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Sport Clube Santo Antônio, commonly known as Sport Atalaia, is an amateur Brazilian football club based in Atalaia, Alagoas. The team withdrew from the Campeonato Alagoano in the 2015 season.
History
The club was founded on 13 July 2007. They finished as runners-up in the 2010 Campeonato Alagoano Second Level, losing the competition to CSA.
Stadium
Sport Clube Santo Antônio play their home games at Estádio Luís de Albuquerque Pontes. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 3,000 people.
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Association football clubs established in 2007
Football clubs in Alagoas
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Jevrou Netshakhuma was officially appointed by Archbishop Dr EMM Mureri on 12 March 2017 as the Head of the UAAC Women Ministry. Prior to that she worked hard at Thohoyandou District where she encouraged women to participate at all church functions, mainly leading groups of women to Zimbabwe and other excursions meant to uplift women and marketing the UAAC. She is also well known for her powerful sermons and parental advices.
Jev Maluleke was re-appointed Deputy Head of the Woman Committee Gauteng Women Leader by Archbishop Dr Mureri on 11March 2018. A hardworking elderly lady by nature, Jev Maluleke is well known for building the women structure in the Greater Malamulele area.
Jevrou Mpolosi was appointed as Deputy Head of the Women Ministry on 12 March 2017. Better known for her powerful singing, Jevrou Mpolosi was Gauteng Women Leader before relocating permanently to Limpopo. She is well known for her good Organisational skills.
Jev Mbatsane was appointed Gauteng Women Leader by Archbishop Dr Mureri on 13 May 2018. A natural philanthropist, but down to earth individual, Jevrou Mbatsane already gained prominence in Gauteng prior to her appointment, as she worked tirelessly to ensure that both the young and old wear proper uniform. She is also well known for her generosity which cuts across all church departments.
Chief Inspector Annah Ramalamula is the leader of Inspectors within the the National Women structure. Her organisational skills in Women affairs over the years have propelled the Women Ministry to assemble the second biggest gathering of the United African Apostolic Church in the form of the National Women Conference that meets during the second week of March annually. Mu-Chief, as affectionately known at church, is well known for her cohesive and administrative skills.
Senior Inspector Sylvia Tshisikhawe `s administrative skills are well known within the Women Ministry. She has moved up the ranks from leading women committee at Balethavha district to the second highest position within the Women Committee.
Consequently, the UAAC women's ministry is one of the most essential and influential parts of the church. Since inception in 1987, the ministry had successfully fostered spiritual and mental development amongst women, both young and old. As a result, the National Women Conference is the second biggest gathering of the UAAC.
The ministry also encourages interaction with other women with common interests. Prayer services through night vigils are encouraged at a district level.
Their activities also place more emphasis on building families and praying for families and the entire church. They exchange ideas on attributes of a "good mother / women" in the family, church, at work and in the social circles. All these should be in accordance with biblical teachings.
Positive thinking and attitudes towards self and life and self-esteem.
The National Women Conference is held at the end of March or beginning of April, whilst Provincial Conferences are held in May each year .
Let God love you through others and let God love others through you. |
In this season of grads and dads, I'll admit that if any of my three children had followed their father's example and chosen to study at Yale, I would have somehow scraped together the money to pay for it.
As it happens, they made other plans: graduating from a distinguished state university (University of Washington) or an excellent religious institution (Yeshiva University). The cost, less than one-fourth the burden of Ivy League tuition, raises questions of why so many families pay big money for that extra layer of prestige. In a new book, the New York Times' Frank Bruni argues that $60,000 a year to attend institutions like Yale doesn't pay off in educational or career terms.
But parenting is such a worrisome challenge that blue-chip degrees for your children can offer reassurance that you've done something right. Ultimately, character and goodness are far better indicators of success in life and parenting than Ivy League bragging rights. |
Tennessee's Water Conservation Curriculum for grades 4-12.
A new water conservation curriculum created by water resource professionals for students in grades 4-12. Easy to understand text, illustrations, puzzles, and lab activities help students explore the water cycle, watersheds, and the work people do to provide clean water for our use while protecting wildlife.
The Compact provides this resource for free for classroom teachers, non- formal educators, and home school groups. If you would like to use the curriculum in your classroom, please email us to arrange a time to pick up the curriculum from our office in Nashville or download here. |
Meghan Markle's nod to Queen as Duchess replicates message of 'rebirth after conflict' | Royal | News (Reports)
Meghan Markle and Harry discuss motives behind Spotify podcast
Meghan and Prince Harry made their first joint appearance this week since they confirmed they would not be returning the royal frontline. They appeared in a promotional video for Spotify, the streaming giant they signed a lucrative deal with last year, to discuss their upcoming podcast series, Archewell Audio. Meghan explained that they are "using podcasting to drive powerful conversations", while Harry added that they intend to "inspire, challenge and educate".
The Duchess of Sussex continued: "We created Archewell Audio to make sure that we can elevate voices that maybe aren't being heard, and hear people's stories."
While there was a great deal of focus on the couple's words, Meghan's unusual high-neck dress may have had a curious underlying message, too.
Her peplum dress by Oscar de la Renta with lemon appliques seemed to be the perfect homage to the seasons as Spring approaches.
The item was actually named the 'Primavera Dress' by the designer, after the famous Sandro Botticelli painting from the 15th Century.
The painting itself is an allegory based on the growth of Spring and lemons, much like those on Meghan's dress, cover the top portion of the painting.
Meghan Markle's nod to the Queen in her latest public appearance (Image: Spotify)
Meghan with Harry in the Spotify promo wearing a designer dress which includes a nod to a historical painting (Image: Spotify/Oscar de la Renta)
While Meghan could have just been signalling the time of year, it's worth noting that the Queen also famously paid tribute to the historical painting with her wedding dress in 1947.
The Queen is known to have purchased her wedding dress using 200 extra coupons provided by the Government, as the UK was still using wartime rationing.
As Hello! reported: "Created by Norman Hartnell with a 13ft train, the then Princess Elizabeth's duchesse satin gown featured motifs of star lilies and orange blossom, inspired by Botticelli's Primavera to symbolise rebirth after the devastation of conflict."
Similarly, Meghan could be referencing her new life outside of the Royal Family, now all of the negotiations with the Palace have finally drawn to a close.
She may be signalling that, like the Queen after the war, she is ready to enjoy a "rebirth" away from the conflict she experienced behind Palace walls.
She might also be thinking about her pregnancy; earlier this month she and Harry announced they were expecting their second child.
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The Queen's wedding dress from 1947 included a nod to the same painting (Image: Getty)
Either way, the nod to the Queen should not go unnoticed and could be seen as a tacit peace offering.
This is a surprising decision, especially as the Sussexes appeared to hit out at the Palace in their most recent statement.
When the couple told the Queen they would not be returning to the royal fold last week, she removed their royal patronages.
In a public statement, the Palace said: "Following conversations with the Duke, the Queen has written confirming that in stepping away from the work of the Royal Family it is not possible to continue with the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service."
It added that the patronages would be redistributed among the remaining royals.
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The Queen's dress symbolised rebirth after conflict (Image: Getty)
Botticelli's Primavera from the 15th Century (Image: Getty)
The statement concluded saying that "all are saddened by their decision" but the couple "remain much loved members of the family".
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex quickly shot back, and said: "We can all live a life of service.
"Service is universal."
A Sussex source also told The Times: "There is no hiding that this is a difference of opinion."
Royal historian Robert Lacey also described the statement as a "definite pushback at the Palace".
Meghan and the Queen showing their close bond together in 2018 (Image: Getty)
While it is not known exactly when Meghan and Harry filmed the promo for Spotify, if it was after their public spat with the royals, the dress could be perceived as a peace offering to the Queen.
The couple were said to be exceptionally close with the monarch prior to their exit, and the Queen's statements leading up to their departure were incredibly informal by referring to the family by their first names.
Last January, she said: "I recognise the challenges they have experienced as a result of intense scrutiny over the last two years and support their wish for a more independent life.
"I want to thank them for all their dedicated work across this country, the Commonwealth and beyond, and am particularly proud of how Meghan has so quickly become one of the family."
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Dead Heat Vocalist Chris Ramos on Their Debut LP, Loving the Crumbsuckers + More
By Carlos Ramirez | @MusicQuizKing | 2.27.2019
Photo: Michael D. Thorn
It's been almost three years since I first posted about Dead Heat on the site. During that time, the Oxnard, CA crossover thrash band has gone from demos to a split EP with Mindforce to a full-length album. The latter arrived just a couple of weeks back in the form of Certain Death, a 10-song collection that has been garnering a lot of love from the underground music community. The album was tracked with Taylor Young, a musician you might know from such bands as Nails and Twitching Tongues who has also worked with Xibalba, Mizery, and Judiciary, among other No Echo-friendly artists.
"I'd say the whole recording process took about a week to fully track and figure out what exactly we wanted with this LP," Dead Heat vocalist Chris Ramos told me during a recent chat. "Working with Taylor was very laid back and pretty straight-forward with us, but he definitely did push us with parts to get the perfect result of what it needed to be. He truly helped us make sure this record came out the best it could possibly be."
<a href="http://deadheatca.bandcamp.com/album/certain-death-2">Certain Death by Dead Heat</a>
Have you ever tracked vocals? Speaking from experience, it can be a very anxious-inducing affair, but Chris wasn't fazed. "The whole vocal recording part was actually quite easy and was fairly quick, although, we did spread it out between days, so that I didn't stress my voice. Honestly, there's only been a few times I have had anxiety with recording in the studio and that has only happenened when I wasn't really not prepared. I love hearing feedback when it comes to my voice or the way something sounds, so it helps having someone actually listening as I'm doing it to critique."
Photo: Nic Samayoa
Chris clues me in on some of the lyrical ideas he covered on Certain Death. "There's a couple topics on this record where as each song kinda have their own subjects. Some of the ones on this album go anywhere from government corruption to anxiety to gun violence. Others are about losing loved ones and some are about being manipulated, which we all can usually relate with.
"I also have songs on the new album about La Raza and hometown pride."
A total and appreciated surprise for me when I played Certain Death was its last track, a cover of Crumbsuckers' "Trapped," a track from the Long Island crossover OGs' Life of Dreams album. "We decided to cover 'Trapped' maybe a couple of weeks before recording Certain Death. We originally thought to ourselves that we weren't gonna put it on the album and just have it recorded—for who knew what—but then we decided to just to leave it and place it out there. I feel like it was a good song for us to do so that we could kind of show off our capabilities."
Seen below, the cover art for Certain Death looks like something you would have seen in a Combat Records magazine ad, circa 1987. In other words, I love it. "Our guitarist, Anthony, painted this masterpiece over like a month or two ago, little by little, starting with our unofficial mascot, which we like to call 'Bone Daddy.' Then, as time went on, we finally came to the conclusion of Certain Death being the idea behind it while also adding little nods to older bands that have played big roles in Dead Heat's influence."
Chris gave me the lowdown on Dead Heat's 2019 plans: "We got a couple things planned out for this summer. So far, we'll be on United Blood, and were gonna be trying to lay down some groundwork and get some other smaller tours in the works. We'll hopefully be traveling a little bit to help promote this album to places and crowds that have never been able to see us before. We're just trying to do as much as we possibly can because now that the ball is rolling, we have no plans of stopping."
Certain Death is out now digitally and the vinyl version can be pre-ordered via Edgewood Records and will begin shipping in April.
If you're shopping for vinyl, CD, and cassette hardcore titles, head to No Echo's partner store, Reverb LP, to see what they have available. Every purchase you make helps No Echo with site costs.
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Owner of No Echo, Carlos Ramirez has played in the bands Black Army Jacket, Lakota, Hope Collapse, and Deny the Cross. In addition to No Echo, he hosts a weekly show on GimmeRadio.com called Street Ready. Born and raised in Queens, N.Y., Ramirez resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two kids, and is the co-owner of Fascination Street Films, a television production company.
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Segers FHID & Taborsky B (2012). Competition level determines compensatory growth abilities. Behavioral Ecology 23 (3): 665-671. DOI:10.1093/beheco/ars013.
In many animal taxa, size-selective predation favors fast growth early in life. However, same-aged juveniles can diverge in size due to differences in genotype, environmental conditions, and parental effects and thus may vary in competitive ability. Under food scarcity, competitively inferior juveniles may suffer suppressed growth, whereas under benign conditions, small juveniles may exhibit growth compensation and perform as well as large ones. However, studies testing this while controlling for parental effects are lacking. Here, we hand-raised cichlid, Simochromis pleurospilus, from a wide range of egg sizes and manipulated their size by differential feeding. Afterward, high- and low-ration siblings were kept in groups assigned to either a high- or low-competition environment. We investigated how the degree of competition affected aggressiveness and growth of juveniles with different feeding histories. As predicted, when competition was high, high-ration offspring grew fastest. Interestingly, when competition was weak, low-ration juveniles grew at a similar rate as high-ration ones and many were able to catch up in size. High-ration fish were more aggressive than low-ration ones, and this effect was strongest under high competition. Additionally, in the high-competition environment, received aggression was negatively related to growth, and inflicted aggression correlated positively with the growth of the aggressor. These relationships were absent under low competition. Our findings suggest that the abilities to compensate for early growth depression depend on the prevalent level of competition. Aggression is likely used to monopolize food by juvenile S. pleurospilus; however, when competition is strong, aggression cannot compensate for a size disadvantage. |
We enshrine to, Strategise and commission a strong fundamental in lodging facility, service quality and market branding to position Garden City Hotel, Phnom Penh as the leading five star luxury hotel in Cambodia and the Asia Pacific region. Short, medium and long-term business plan and affirmative management policies to maximise company's Operating profit and shareholders' Return On Investment.
Adhere to the company visions. Be focus & competence with our missions and engage fully our time, energy and efforts towards achieving the company's goals & Objectives.
Respect your peer and co–workers. Be caring and sharing amongst fellow colleagues to foster a conducive, interactive and friendly working environment.
Treat our guests with our highest level of quality services and products. Level of guest satisfaction marks our success and attribution to our business achievement.
Savour the local social, cultural and ethnic activities. Taking active role in events and happenings within the Community.
Serve the country respectfully. Observe the law and contribute towards the growth of the nation and be a role model of the service industry.
We believe in a harmonious, caring and sharing working environment with mutual respect and close interaction.
We believe in working as a team. We achieve our department and company goals through group discussion, sharing of ideas and plan towards common objectives and goals.
We believe in openness, honesty, trusting each other to do our best and to take full responsibility of what we do.
We believe in providing a safe, clean, tidy and hygienic work place and sensitive to environmental, social and cultural requirements.
We believe in training and developing potential human resources, improving and upgrading technology and facilities to maximise productivity and product quality.
We believe in providing our best service with "an extra mile" to achieve total customer satisfaction.
"Guest comes first" Guest of Garden City Hotel will always be our first priority and deserve our best service.
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Pregnancy! That beautiful time when everyone around you will feel free to launch into elaborate discussions about what to eat, read, think and breathe too. And the one thing that everyone also told me was it's ok to formula feed, it doesn't harm the babies, "I mean look at our babies. They are doing just fine aren't they?" Sadly, much of the generation previous to ours relied more on formula milk than their own breast milk. So there is a serious dearth of people who will give you first-hand advice about breastfeeding. But one Facebook group is changing that.
I am greatly indebted to the group on Facebook called Breastfeeding Support for Indian Mothers. Without it, I don't think I would have been breastfeeding at all, forget extended breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding Support for Indian Mothers (BSIM) is a peer-to- peer support group for breastfeeding parents, their partners and family members. With more than 50,000 members the Facebook Support group aims to help parents who are at various stages of their breastfeeding journey, ranging from pregnant to those with older children following natural term nursing. Even though the group is primarily targeted towards the Indian diaspora, it has members who are from various countries across the world.
How wrong I was! For when the gates to this support group opened up for me (read: my request to join the group was approved.) I was astonished to see that many women had issues, some minor or some complex, with this natural act of breastfeeding. The group wall was painted with queries from women all over India about their breastfeeding experiences.
Reading these scared me. The joy and mirth of pregnancy took a backseat for a short while and I did lose some precious sleep. But I also thanked my stars that I had arrived into the group at the right time and used the opportunity to soak up all the information that the group administrators, moderators and expert mothers were sharing.
I also came across a myriad myths and hearsay that new mothers were being subjected to by ill informed people around them. Some were amusing & some plain ridiculous. Motivation came in the form of mothers who shared photos of their breastfeeding milestones – 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding, 2 years and even more. I internalized all this information and even supplemented it by reading up resources such as La Leche League International and Kelly Moms, references to which I again found on BSIM.
BSIM today is crossing many strides as it partners with healthcare professionals and reaches out to many people across the country via live events. However it is still that cosy group of mothers who have found joy in breastfeeding and now continue to support and encourage each other. So if you are a #momtobe or know someone who would benefit from being a part of this group, ask them to join rightaway. They will thank you for the tip.
I honestly did not think about how long I would be breastfeeding babyT before we started. But now that we are still at it at 20 months, it seems like the most natural thing to do. He is still my baby and I am still feeding him valuable nutrition.
Toddler breastfeeding has its own dynamics and every day can still spring surprises. Feeling like you are "feeding a new-born" is common even after the child has turned, say 15 or 18 months. Toddler Breastfeeding is still about providing valuable nutrition to the child, as much as it is about providing comfort, soothing and helps tide through the necessary ills of development spurts, teething, viral, etc. But breastfeeding is a boon at these times. Nothing can pacify a confused, cranky toddler like the mother's breast can. Selfish or lazy, you say? Well, no. I call it my superpower. |
When I worked in the corporate world I learned to appreciate that people perceive things differently. By understanding the differences in the way people see the world, what is important to them, the conclusions they draw, and the actions they take, I was able to put people in positions that used their natural skills, surround myself with people who complimented rather than mirrored my skills, and assemble teams that had both the right amount of creative tension and synergy.
The tool used to accomplish these things was Perceptual Style Theory (PST). Styles theories make sense to me because they provide an alternative explanation to the simplistic "I'm right and you're wrong" attitude that characterizes so much of human interaction and organizational conflict.
For a long time I was puzzled that my fellow executives weren't as taken with these theories as I was until I realized that while people may agree with the description of their own and other's style, they see little or no practical application. The comment I heard frequently was "This is all accurate and interesting, but so what? What can I do with this information?" I finally understand that while the answers to these questions were clear to me they were not to others.
This insight became the driving force behind creating the services for entrepreneurs available in the Your Talent Advantage system. We have created a three step program to provide successful results to entrepreneurs.
Step one is to determine their Perceptual Style. We use the Perceptual Style Assessment (PSA) for this purpose. Knowing their PS reveals their natural strengths and abilities and their unique entrepreneurial style.
It allows them to understand who they are and where they naturally excel. This is the single most effective way to help them focus in on the exact roles within their business that support their brilliance as an entrepreneur—and highlight which ones they need others to fill in order for their business to have the greatest success.
Building a business that reflects your strengths applies to the products and services you sell as well as the way in which you market them to potential customers or clients.
Step two is to provide direct answers regarding what types of products and services they should be marketing, the most effective way for them to market them, and the type of clients they will be most successful marketing them to. The results of a second assessment, the Recognized Strengths Profile (RSP), are used to show how well what they are currently doing fit their natural strengths. Coaching is focused on bringing the two into alignment.
Once an entrepreneur has their daily actions and their business aligned in a way that takes the best advantage of their natural strengths it is important to make sure that they have assembled a support team that can fill the gaps they need to have filled by others.
Building the right support team is just a critical as knowing your own strengths. This requires knowing exactly what skills are needed, how to find out whether any current team members have them, and, if not, how to find some people that do.
Step three is all about building a dynamic and effective team that will add to business success and remove the burden of performing acquired skills from the entrepreneur.
Creating an effective team capable of all the skills needed for success necessarily requires people with different Perceptual Styles rather than hiring a bunch of 'mini-mes'.
PST is fascinating to me because it stimulates the side of me that is naturally attracted to knowledge and understanding for its own sake. But using PST to help others become more successful in their business has a much greater long-term appeal.
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The following is a study that was published in International Journal of Sports Medicine that researched the relationship between the strength of the rotator cuff and ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) tears. There are a variety of reasons why baseball players of all ages, from youth to the majors, injure their arms. The results of this study found that baseball players who had a torn UCL had deficits in strength of the rotator cuff vs. players with a healthy UCL.
This study shows that it is very important to make sure the baseball player, whether a position player or pitcher, has adequate strength of the rotator cuff musculature. Muscles can act as dynamic stabilizers and ligaments only prevent unwanted movement. With that, a strengthening program for the rotator cuff may play a role in preventing UCL tears in baseball players.
In a study performed by Garrison et al, the investigators researched the possible relationship of ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) tears in baseball players with deficits in rotator cuff muscular strength. The study consisted of 33 players who had been diagnosed with a UCL tear and 33 players that were healthy and without UCL tears. All participants were not exclusively pitchers, as both groups were matched by position. All participants had baseball experience at the high school and/or collegiate level and volunteered for the study.
The hypothesis of the study stated that baseball players with a torn UCL would have decreased isometric strength in external rotation (ER) and internal rotation (IR) at 0 degrees glenohumeral (GH) abduction. All participants' strength was evaluated on both throwing and non-throwing arms.
In closing, the study demonstrated that the group of players with a torn UCL showed a great decrease in strength on the throwing and non-throwing arm in both ER and IR when compared to the healthy control group. |
Dolichopus longipennis är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Friedrich Hermann Loew 1861. Dolichopus longipennis ingår i släktet Dolichopus och familjen styltflugor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
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If it seems that you and your dog have seen all there is to see on land, perhaps it is time to find some fabulous dog friendly cruises for your next holiday. However, pet-friendly cruises are hard to come by. Since the world is 96.5% water, a dog friendly cruise makes sense, but most options are limited to shorter cruises on smaller boats. Intimate dog friendly cruises can be found all over Europe and America. The best choice is to travel by air or car to your cruising destination. Once you have arrived, you and your dog can combine the wonders of land and sea into one unforgettable holiday.
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The Captain of these intimate excursions, loves dogs as much as you do, which is why the Moondance II welcomes furry friends aboard. The small trips allow up to six human passengers and adventurous dogs. You can cuddle up with your pup and enjoy the beautiful bay and calming waters. There are many options including a half day cruise, full day cruise, and even whale watching!
This exhilarating excursion leaves from Navy Pier and offers a variety of tours to choose from. The popular Lakefront Speedboat Tour is a fast-paced, 30-minute adventure will point out some of Chicago's top spots. As a bonus, humans traveling with their pups receive 10% off regularly-priced tickets.
You are your leashed dog will enjoy quality time while cruising on Chicago's waterways. This cruise is for the dog and owner who prefer to sit back, relax and soak in the city. Together you will listen to Chicago's rich history and architectural marvels. The boat offers plenty of safe outdoor-seating, water bowls, and a special newspaper-lined restroom when it's time for a bathroom break.
Bundle up for a two-hour, narrated cruise of Frenchman Bay. Your dog can scour the skies for eagles and migrating birds or hunt the water for porpoises, seals, and other marine animals. Well-behaved, leashed pets are welcome aboard the Acadian.
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Q: python linprog, lp appears to be unbounded I'm trying to write a simple LP in Python to solve rock paper scissors, here is my code before:
from scipy.optimize import linprog
obj = [0, 0, 0, -1]
A = [[0, 1, -1, -1], [-1, 0, 1, -1], [1, -1, 0, -1], [1, 1, 1, 0]]
b = [0, 0, 0, 1]
pb = (0.0, 1)
wb = (None, None)
res = linprog(obj, A_ub=A, b_ub=b, bounds=(pb,pb,pb,wb),options={"disp": True})
print(res)
Unfortunately when I run this, I get the following message:
'Optimization failed. The problem appears to be unbounded.'
But considering my LP is as follows:
f = -w
pp - ps - w = 0
-pr + -ps - w = 0
pr - pp - w = 0
pr + pp + ps = 1
0 < pr, pp, ps < 1
I don't see why this is unbounded. If I'm either messing up the construction of my LP or there is a syntax error could someone let me know.
A: You write in your call:
res = linprog(obj, A_ub=A, b_ub=b, bounds=(pb,pb,pb,wb),options={"disp": True})
So this means that you write an A_ub * x <= b_ub instead of A_eq * x = b_eq. As a result your program looks like:
minimize f = -w
wrt.
pp - ps - w <= 0
-pr + -ps - w <= 0
pr - pp - w <= 0
pr + pp + ps = 1
0 < pr, pp, ps < 1
Since we here have in the last lines ... - w <= 0 and we aim to minimize -w, this means that the optimal is w being positive infinity.
Your program suggests however that you want equality bounds. So we can write this with A_eq and b_eq parameters:
res = linprog(obj, A_eq=A, b_eq=b, bounds=(pb,pb,pb,wb),options={"disp": True})
This then gives us:
>>> res = linprog(obj, A_eq=A, b_eq=b, bounds=(pb,pb,pb,wb),options={"disp": True})
Optimization terminated successfully.
Current function value: -0.000000
Iterations: 4
>>> print(res)
fun: -0.0
message: 'Optimization terminated successfully.'
nit: 4
slack: array([0.66666667, 0.66666667, 0.66666667])
status: 0
success: True
x: array([0.33333333, 0.33333333, 0.33333333, 0. ])
This thus means that we have:
pr = 1/3
pp = 1/3
ps = 1/3
w = 0
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1. Objective:
The Collegiate Girls High School (CGHS) Code of Conduct (CoC) seeks to clarify the learner conduct required and expected in order to achieve an optimal learning environment.
2. The optimal CGHS learning environment:
The aim of CGHS is to provide young women with a sound holistic (academic, cultural and sporting) and optimal education in order to prepare them to be both leaders in a dynamic, multi-cultural world and well-balanced, informed and responsible members of society.
An optimal learning environment requires a stable, balanced, disciplined, and high-trust environment underpinned by an equally high standard of ethics and good conduct based upon broad Christian principles and the Constitution of South Africa.
In seeking to create this environment, CGHS has adopted the values of integrity, compassion, responsibility, respect and good work ethic to guide relations (with self, between learner & others, school and community) at the school.
School tradition and the school's good name are both important components in ensuring learner pride in the institution and the continued success of the school from one generation to the next. Thus each individual young lady's individual contribution and conduct is considered to have a significant impact on the school environment and in building its future.
3. Expected Conduct:
Each Collegiate learner is expected to subscribe to and demonstrate the following principles of good conduct:
a) Passionate about learning: that they will display enquiring and inquisitive minds constantly seeking to challenge and explore known and new areas of knowledge and skills
b) Ethical: that in all their relations and actions they will uphold a high level of integrity and high moral standards
c) Responsible: each learner is responsible for her conduct and actions whilst at school or representing the school, and is expected to consider in all circumstances the potential outcome of her actions and its impact upon herself and others
d) Respectful: that in behaviour and attitude they will be compassionate, courteous and tolerant of difference towards themselves, others and the school itself
e) Proud: thereby to take pride in themselves, their fellow learners, the school educators and the school's good name
f) Of the community: that as active members of the school community, they will acknowledge and subscribe to reasonable & necessary boundaries set by the school, by their educators and by their fellow learners and constantly strive to add value to the school and its institutions
g) The best they can be: that in all their relations and actions they will constantly strive to excel and develop their own unique potential to the best of their capacity and capability within the learning framework provided by the school and their parents
Disciplinary Policy & Procedure
1. Principles of disciplinary action:
The Collegiate community will strive to uphold the following principles when learner conduct exceeds acceptable limits and needs to be addressed:
a) Fairness: Both substantively (punishment fits the crime) and procedurally (follow the steps) fair
b) Rehabilitate rather than punish: conduct that goes beyond acceptable levels must where possible be used as a learning opportunity to progressively correct undesirable behaviour rather than simply punishing the learner
c) Address the behaviour not the person: all disciplinary action must seek to correct behaviour whilst maintaining the self-esteem of the learner
d) Respect the rights of all learners: both the individual learner and learners as a whole have the right to ongoing education in an environment conducive to learning
e) Maintain discipline & purpose of school: actions taken in response to undesirable behaviour must seek to bring peace and stability to the school environment to maintain a quality educational environment and prevent further such behaviour from being repeated or perpetuated by others
f) Seek constructive outcomes to conflict: conflict is a natural phenomenon; the response to such must seek to ensure a constructive outcome that builds consensus rather than polarize the school community.
2. Disciplinary procedure:
1. Where behaviour has been directed at/involves another learner, the school principal (or designated person) may at their discretion choose to convene a conciliation between parties (the learners and their parents/guardian) before embarking on a disciplinary process.
2. In the instance of a Schedule 3 contravention, a disciplinary hearing may be convened where a conciliation attempt has failed, or if the incident only involved one learner and had no impact on others (e.g. plagiarism). It is left to the discretion of the Principal (or where precedent dictates) whether the matter is of sufficient gravity to require a Governing Body hearing.
3. In case of a reasonable suspicion that learners have violated this code of conduct or the laws of the country, the school principal or an educator is entitled to search such learners and/or the property in their possession for any dangerous weapons, guns, drugs or other harmful and dangerous substances, stolen goods or pornographic material that the learners may have brought onto the school grounds. Throughout, learners' dignity will be respected, and therefore, the search will be conducted in private, by persons of the same sex, and in the presence of another person. The search process and outcome must be recorded.
4. Any conduct that unfairly prejudices the administration, discipline or efficiency of the school shall be regarded as a violation of this code of conduct.
5. A conviction of a criminal offence in a court of law shall be regarded as a violation of this code of conduct.
6. In the instance of all Schedule 3 offences detailed notes must be kept
7. In the instance of repeated contravening behaviour, the learner should be referred to the school psychologist/counselor for assessment and counseling prior to any disciplinary action being initiated.
8. The school community and persons of authority within the school must follow the procedure below when enforcing the code of conduct, relevant school policies and the school's rules
Grade Head
SMT/ Principal
SGB Hearing
Report to
Educator or Grade Head
Sanctions/
Report to Grade Head
convenes Hearing/ Sanctions
Convenes
Hearing/ Sanctions
"Report" means the matter was observed by the person and referred to a higher level for investigation and sanction;
"Sanction" means the person is responsible for the disciplinary outcome/decision after an appropriate investigation;
"Reviews" means the person has the authority to reconsider the sanction given at a level below and also the responsibility for monitoring related outcomes to ensure their consistency and identify trends.
2.2 Applicable criteria in deciding disciplinary outcomes:
Any person within the school community or person/s of authority deciding on a disciplinary matter, including SGB hearings, must consider the following in coming to a decision:
1. Relevant laws and the Constitution of South Africa
2. The school's code of conduct, disciplinary policy & procedure, other relevant policies and the school rules
3. The impact of the behaviour, specifically on those to whom the behaviour was directed and whether the behaviour was unwanted/unwelcome
4. The intentionality of the learner whose behaviour is under review
5. The rights of the individual learner vs. the rights of other learners
6. Precedent
7. What the actions of a reasonable person (learner) would have been under the same circumstances
8. The reasonable possibility of rehabilitative action succeeding
9. Suggestions for an appropriate sanctions by the learner themselves.
2.3 Minor transgressions
Schedule 1 transgressions (Schedule 1 attached hereto)
In the case of a Schedule 1 transgression, such violation shall be referred to an educator of the school, who will be entitled to impose the following sanctions:
1. A reprimand;
2. Verbal apology and/or letters of apology;
3. Meaningful written work (maximum 500 words);
4. Friday or Saturday Detention;
5. Confiscation of the object/article/substance;
6. Communication with parents/guardians (by the Grade Head)
7. A suspended sentence involving any of the above sanctions.
8. Match or performance exclusion.
Any of the above sanctions may be coupled with a directive that the pupil undergoes counselling on such terms as the appropriate member of staff may direct.
Prefects Detention
In the case of the following Schedule 1 transgressions, a School Prefect may issue prefects detention:
• Not wearing name badges, nor being able to produce a receipt indicating that the badge is on order;
• Not having a hymn book in assembly;
• Any uniform transgressions;
• Not wearing uniform at Grey sports matches;
• Talking in Assembly;
• Misbehaviour at functions, including sports matches;
• Out of bounds;
• Disrespect to seniors.
One or more of the following forms of action may be taken against the learner by the appropriate member of staff:
1. Saturday Detention;
2. A verbal or written warning;
3. Monetary compensation (or replacement of the actual item) in respect of replacement value in instances of damage to property etc.;
4. Meaningful hand written work (maximum 1000 words) or an appropriate project that is rehabilitative in relation to the offense;
5. Rewriting plagiarised/cheat work with automatic mark penalisation;
6. Mark penalisation;
7. Community service;
8. Removal of privileges such as participation on socials/outings/derby days and school-related scheduled social events, unless a learner is part of a team or where this would be considered essential as part of rehabilitation (for Junior and Seniors);
9. Communication with parents/guardians (by the Grade Head);
10. Public apology to the school, part of the school, grade or affected party on a rehabilitative project/action in relation to the offense;
11. Letters of apology to the school, part of the school, grade or affected party on a rehabilitative project/action in relation to the offense;
12. Implementation of rehabilitative action agreed to by the parties
13. The learner and her parents/guardian may on occasions, for more serious misconduct appear at a Disciplinary Meeting/Hearing with the Principal and educators involved;
14. A suspended sentence involving any of the above sanctions.
2.4 Major Transgressions
If a learner is accused of serious misconduct the Principal may appoint a person as an investigator. The investigator must collect evidence to enable the Principal to determine whether there are grounds for a disciplinary hearing. The investigator must request the parent/ guardian of the accused learner to attend a meeting where the investigator is afforded an opportunity to question the accused learner, and provide the accused learner with an opportunity to state her case. In the event of the parent/ guardian refusing to attend such meeting, the investigator may proceed with meeting the accused learner. An additional member of staff must be in attendance at any meeting with the accused learner (with or without her parent/ guardian), or in investigatory meetings with any potential witnesses. The investigator must submit a written report to the principal. The principal must decide whether the transgression warrants a disciplinary hearing. The Principal must consult with the Governing Body Disciplinary Committee prior to making a final decision.
One or more of the following forms of action may be taken against the learner by the Principal or by the SGB Disciplinary Hearing appointed to do so:
1. The learner may appear at a Disciplinary Meeting with the Principal and/or educators involved, and the learners' parents/guardians. The learner may be required to appear at a Disciplinary Hearing, with her parents/guardians (in which case the School Governing Body will be involved and a formal Hearing process will follow);
2. Community service on or off school premises;
3. Saturday detention/s;
4. Monetary compensation (or actual replacement/restoration of the item/property) in respect of replacement value in instances of damage to property, theft etc.;
5. A final written warning;
6. Mark penalisation in the case of cheating/plagiarism offenses;
8. Suspension from school activities or a selection thereof (suspension from academic activities should only occur in special circumstances);
9. Removal of privileges such as attendance to Matric Dinner/Dance and other scheduled events (for Seniors only);
10. Exclusion from/removal of school awards;
11. Impeachment from leadership positions;
12. Any of the schedule 1 and 2 sanctions not listed as a possible Schedule 3 sanction;
13. Police or other community-sector intervention;
14. Temporary or permanent exclusion/expulsion from the hostel;
15. An appropriate apology to the affected party/ parties;
16. Letters of apology to the school or part of the school or grade, or affected party;
17. Rehabilitative action;
18. Notification to the Department of Education of the offence committed by the learner;
19. Suspension of the learner as a correctional measure (may not exceed five (5) school days);
20. Application to the Department of Education for the learners' expulsion from the school (which may include suspension);
21. Police or other community-sector intervention.
Any of the above sanctions may be coupled with a directive that the sanction imposed must be communicated to the learner's parents or guardians, and/or with a directive that the learner undergoes counselling on such terms as the Principal or Disciplinary Hearing may direct.
2.5 Disciplinary Hearing for Serious Misconduct
a) The investigating officer (appointed by the Principal) must draw up a charge sheet setting out all of the particulars of the transgression. The charge must be accompanied by a written notice calling on the learner and her parents to attend a disciplinary hearing. The date, place and time of the hearing must be stipulated in the notice. This must be determined in consultation with the disciplinary committee. The notice must contain sufficient particulars of the date and nature of the alleged misconduct to enable the learner to identify the incident and to respond to it. At least five (5) school days must be allowed between the handing over of the notice and the hearing. The investigator must also notify all witnesses to be present at the hearing.
b) The notice of the hearing must inform the learner of provisional suspension, if any, the reasons therefore and any other matter required in connection with the provisional suspension; and inform the learner of the rights of a learner in terms hereof.
c) The Governing Body shall appoint the disciplinary committee to conduct the hearing. In the event of the accused learner nominating a fellow learner to sit on the disciplinary committee, the committee will consist of five (5) persons (4 Governors and one learner). In the event of the accused learner not appointing a fellow learner to the disciplinary committee, the committee will consist of 3 (three) Governors.
d) The majority of members of the disciplinary committee must be members of the Governing Body.
e) One member of the disciplinary committee must be a learner selected by the accused learner.
f) The disciplinary committee must be chaired by a member of the School Governing Body who is not an employee or member of staff of the school.
g) No person who has anything to do with the investigation of the charge of misconduct, including the principal, may serve on the disciplinary committee or be present at the meeting of the School Governing Body when the report or recommendations of the disciplinary committee are discussed and a decision is taken on punishment.
h) No person who is a relative of the accused learner or has a personal interest in the hearing may serve on the disciplinary committee or be present when the School Governing Body discusses the report of the disciplinary committee.
i) At the hearing, the investigator must adduce evidence and arguments in support of the charge. He or she must put questions to any person who has given evidence in rebuttal of the charge.
j) At a hearing a learner must have the right to be present, to be represented by a representative, to give evidence and –
1) to be heard;
2) to call witnesses;
3) to put questions to any person called as a witness in support of a charge; and
4) to inspect documents submitted in evidence.
k) The learner is entitled to apply for representation by a legal representative or any person who is appointed by the parent of the learner. Such application must be directed to the chair of the disciplinary committee at least
two (2) school days before the start of the hearing. No other persons, apart from those mentioned above, may attend the hearing on behalf of the accused learner
l) If a learner, or her parents, fail to attend the proceedings without just cause, the hearing may be conducted in their absence.
m) No person other than the learner, her representative, her parents, the investigator and the members of the disciplinary committee may be present at the hearing.
n) The procedure to be followed at the hearing must be in accordance with the provisions set out in this paragraph. The procedure may be adapted to suit the needs of the school. The essential safeguards in order to ensure due process must, however, be complied with.
1) The Chairperson must upon the commencement of the disciplinary hearing –
i) welcome everybody to the meeting;
ii) explain the reason for the meeting;
iii) ask the investigator to read the charges;
iv) ask the learner to react to the charge (plead).
2) If the learner pleads guilty:
i) ensure that the learner knows what she pleads guilty to and that it is not a stratagem just to get the matter over and done with;
ii) ask the learner, her representative or her parents whether they wish to say something before a penalty is imposed;
iii) ask the learner, her representative, or her parents and any other parties, except the members of the disciplinary committee, to leave the room while the committee decides on a suitable punishment;
iv) decide on an appropriate sentence, keeping in mind the object of correcting the behaviour and what the learner and parents said in (ii). This will ensure that the committee applies its mind to the matter;
v) call the excused parties in and inform them of the punishment;
vi) remind the parents and learner of her right to appeal and the procedure therefore. If the punishment is suspension they must be informed that they can appeal to the Head of Department.
3) If the learner pleads not guilty:
i) the chairperson requests the investigator to submit evidence – calling of complainant and/or witnesses;
ii) after each witness has stated his or her case the learner or her parent must be given the opportunity to put questions to the witness. The purpose is to give her the opportunity to refute the evidence. This is not cross-questioning. The chairperson and committee members may also ask questions to get clarification on uncertainties;
iii) ask the learner if she wishes to say something – this is an opportunity to state her case;
iv) the investigator can ask questions;
v) the chairperson and committee members may also ask questions to clarify uncertainties;
vi) excuse the parents, learner and her representative while the committee reviews the evidence and decides on a verdict;
vii) call the parents and learner in and inform them about the committee's decision;
viii) if the committee finds the learner guilty, ask her or her representative or the parents whether they wish to say something before a decision is made on appropriate punishment;
ix) decide on an appropriate sentence, keeping in mind the object of correcting the behaviour and what the learner and parents said in (viii). This will indicate that the committee applied its mind to the matter;
x) call in the learner, her representative and her parents and inform them of the punishment;
xi) remind the parents and learner of the learner's right to appeal and if the punishment is suspension that they can appeal to the Head of Department.
o) At the conclusion of the hearing the disciplinary committee must submit the record of the hearing to the Governing Body together with its findings with regard to the learner's guilt or not and where appropriate recommendations as to corrective measures to be imposed, including suspension or suspension with a view to expulsion, and consequent expulsion.
p) The Governing Body must after considering the findings and recommendations of the disciplinary committee, impose a penalty of summary suspension if it considers it appropriate, or make recommendations to the Head of Department on the appropriate action to be taken in terms of paragraph (u).
q) Where the Governing Body imposes a penalty of summary suspension as a correctional measure, it must, within five (5) days, in writing inform the learner and her parents of the period of suspension, which period must not exceed five (5) school days. In the case of a hostel inmate, the suspended learner must vacate the hostel premises during the period of suspension. The disciplinary committee must advise the district manager of the suspension in writing.
r) Where the Governing Body suspends a learner with a view to expulsion by the Head of Department, it must in writing inform the learner and her parents –
(i) of the suspension from attending school;
(ii) of the reason for the suspension and that the matter has been referred to the Head of Department with a recommendation that the learner be expelled;
(iii) that the suspension takes immediate affect and will last until the Head of Department has decided whether or not to expel the learner; and
(iv) that they have the right to make written representations to the Head of Department concerning the findings of the disciplinary committee.
s) Upon suspension with a view to expulsion, learners who are boarders in a hostel must be removed by their parents.
t) The Principal must within three (3) school days submit to the Head of Department, via the District Office, a report which must include the following:
(i) the full particulars of the learner;
(ii) the record of the proceedings;
(iii) the learner's past disciplinary record;
(iv) a copy of the school's rules and disciplinary code;
(v) Proof that the disciplinary committee complied with the provisions of paragraphs (i), (j),(k),(l), (n) and (o); and
(vi) Reasons why expulsion is the appropriate punishment in the circumstances.
u) After considering the report in paragraph (t) and any other representations made by the learner, her representative, or her parents, the Head of Department must –
i) approve the recommendation of expulsion made; or
ii) find that the transgression of the learner does not warrant expulsion and if deemed appropriate impose or recommend the imposition of a lesser punishment permitted by the code of such transgression; or
iii) find the learner not guilty and acquit her, and notify the Governing
Body, the learner and her representative and her parents accordingly.
v) A learner, or her parents, who wishes to appeal an expulsion order must submit a notice to this effect to the Principal of the school. The principal must in turn submit it to the Head of Department who must submit to the MEC. The parents must submit the notice to the Principal within five (5) school days after being notified of the decision of the Head of Department. The Principal must submit the notice to the Head of Department within two school days after receipt thereof from the parents of the learner concerned. The Head of Department must submit the notice to the MEC within the five (5) school days after receipt thereof from the Principal. The notice must be accompanied by the record of the disciplinary proceedings.
w) The lodging of an appeal must suspend the penalty imposed by the Head of Department until the MEC has decided the appeal. This will mean that the learner will be allowed back to the school pending the appeal.
x) The MEC may convene an appeal hearing within ten (10) school days of receipt of the notice of appeal. The learner and her parents are entitled to address the MEC at the appeal hearing.
y) After considering the appeal the MEC must –
i) dismiss the appeal and confirm the expulsion; or
ii) find that the transgression of the learner does not warrant expulsion and if deemed appropriate impose or recommend the imposition of a lesser punishment permitted by the code for such transgression; or
iii) find the learner not guilty and acquit her.
z) The decision of the MEC is final.
aa) Apart from minor learners' right to testify through mediators, as envisaged in Section 8(7)–(9) of SASA, minor learners (either accused or witnesses) will also be entitled to be assisted by their parents or an educator of their choice during disciplinary proceedings. However, a person who assists a learner may not answer any questions on behalf of the learner or address the disciplinary committee.
ab) If a member of the disciplinary committee, the learner, his or her representative or a witness requires an interpreter, the disciplinary committee may not proceed with the hearing until an interpreter competent in the relevant language has been made available: Provided that it is not necessary to make use of a formally qualified interpreter.
ac) The disciplinary committee must keep a full and accurate record of all proceedings before it. For this purpose, the governing body may appoint a person to minute or electronically record the proceedings. Such person shall not form part of the committee.
ad) Despite any guilty finding and sanction imposed by the SGB, any stakeholder may refer any transgression of the code of conduct that may constitute a criminal offence to the South African Police Service for investigation.
2.6 Suspension of a learner pending criminal proceedings
1) The Principal may recommend to the Head of Department that a learner who has been charged with a criminal offence arising out of a misconduct, be suspended from his or her school until the criminal proceeding against him of her have been finalised: Provided that internal misconduct proceedings against the learner be commenced with as soon as possible.
2) In exercising his or her discretion under sub regulation (1), the Head of Department must have regard to the following factors:
a) The right of the suspended learner to education
b) The need to protect the safety of learners and educators at the school
c) The need to protect the property of the school
d) The potential duration of such criminal proceedings
e) The seriousness of the offence; and
f) The need to maintain general learner discipline at the school.
3) The acquittal or the conviction of a learner by a Court of law on a charge of any offence arising out of misconduct, shall not preclude the taking of disciplinary steps against the learner in terms of these regulation and the code of conduct, even if the facts set out in the charge of misconduct, should they be proven, would constitute the offence set out in the charge on which the learner was found guilty.
2.7 Grade 12 learners
If an expelled learner is in Grade 12 and the misconduct of which such a learner was found guilty was committed during the third or fourth quarter of the year, the Head of Department may order that such a learner be permitted to write his or her examinations on such conditions as shall be determined by the Head of Department in consultation with the Principal: Provided that the learner so found guilty shall not pose a danger to any sector of the schooling community.
2.8 Alternate placement of an expelled learner
If the Head of Department expels a learner who is of compulsory school age, he/she:
a) Must make an alternative arrangement for such learner's placement at another public school;
b) In addition to paragraph (a) above, may require that the learner attend counselling; and
c) Must procure regular progress reports in respect of any counselling.
If the Head of Department expels a learner who is not of compulsory school age, he or she may order that the learner not be re-admitted to another school within the province.
2.9 Internal Appeal
1) A party who is aggrieved with the outcome of disciplinary proceedings before the Governing Body's disciplinary committee shall be entitled to appeal in writing to the chair of the Governing Body against the guilty finding, imposed sanction, or both, within twenty-four (24) hours of receiving written notice of the outcome.
2) The notice of appeal must clearly outline the grounds for the appeal.
3) The chair of the Governing Body must appoint an appeals committee within twenty-four (24) hours of receiving the notice of appeal, which committee must consist of a member of the Governing Body as chair, and at least two other experts. The members of the disciplinary committee who had heard the matter may not serve on the appeals committee as well.
4) The chair of the Governing Body must hand the notice of appeal to both the chair of the appeals committee and the other party to the proceedings before the disciplinary committee, and must ensure that the record of the disciplinary proceedings be made available to the appeals committee.
5) Within twenty-four (24) hours of receiving the notice of appeal, the other party shall be entitled to make representations in response thereto to the chair of the appeals committee.
6) In considering the appeal, the appeals committee shall be restricted to considering the record of the proceedings before the disciplinary committee, the notice of appeal, and any representations that the other party may submit.
7) Any party who wishes to submit to the appeals committee for its consideration any evidence that does not form part of the record of proceedings before the disciplinary committee, must apply in writing for permission to the chair of the appeals committee. In case of the appellant, such application must be contained in the notice of appeal, and in the case of the other party, application must take place within twenty-four (24) hours of receiving the notice of appeal.
8) The application to submit new evidence must contain a full explanation why the evidence had not been available or tabled during the disciplinary proceedings, must outline the nature of the evidence, and must explain in what way the evidence bears reference to the consideration of the appeal.
9) The appeals committee must announce its decision to the parties in writing within seven (7) school days of receiving the notice of appeal.
10) In considering the appeal, the appeals committee may:
a) set aside or uphold the disciplinary committee's guilty or not guilty finding and/or imposed sanction;
b) impose an alternative sanction (including a heavier sanction); and
c) deliver any other ruling that the appeals committee deems fair and just under the circumstances.
1. GENERAL CONDUCT
1.1 All learners should demonstrate respect, consideration and dignity at all times. Discourtesy towards educators, non-educators, other pupils and visitors will not be tolerated.
1.2 Learners are expected to stand aside at doorways and entrances to allow adults and/or more senior Learners to pass through first.
1.3 Unruly behaviour before school, between periods, during breaks, during an assembly, during detention and after school is not acceptable.
1.4 Learners are expected to comply with lawful directives issued by school personnel, and with all school policies, rules and regulations.
1.5 The usage of all electronic devices must be in accordance with the School's IT and Cell Phone Policies (available at www.collegiatehigh.co.za)
1.6 The school will consider the conviction of a learner of a criminal offence as an act of serious misconduct.
1.7 The School will not tolerate:
Dishonesty of any kind;
Theft;
Cheating, attempting to cheat, or having forbidden material or information in a test venue during controlled testing (class tests, term tests, exams). This includes any form of communication, verbal or non-verbal, with another learner, the use of a cell phone as a means of communication, and the distribution of any test or examination material that may enable another person or himself or herself to gain an unfair advantage;
Fraud or criminal deception or dishonesty, tantamount to theft, including unauthorised use of credit cards, debit cards or another learners' identification number, and supplying of false information or falsifying documentation to gain an unfair advantage at school;
Blackmail or extortion;
Obscene and foul language and/or gestures;
Possession of weapons, dangerous toys or other dangerous items at school or in school-related activities;
Possession, copying, distribution, use or displaying of any offensive (including pornographic) or sexually inappropriate material (this is inclusive of all forms of social media);
Bullying and verbal/ non-verbal abuse;
Any acts of assault, intimidation, aggression or offensive/ oppressive or violent behaviour of any form;
Graffiti and vandalism of any kind;
Misconduct or poor sportsmanship during an extra-mural activity's practice, intra-or inter-school competition, league fixture or cultural festival/concert;
Initiation, as stipulated by National Legislation, or any form of behaviour that may cause hurt and/or humiliation;
Hate speech;
Participation in any form of illegal meeting or campaign on school premises;
Political canvassing, soliciting or campaigning activities or recruitment to petitions that are non-school related, on the school premises, by any means;
Interference with, unauthorized use or possession of, and damaging of another person's possessions/property without the owner's consent;
Spitting in public;
Public disturbance and public indecency;
Gambling or trading or selling items/goods on the school property without permission;
Gross insubordination and/or insults the dignity of a staff member;
Repeated absence without leave from school and/or classes;
Inappropriate sexual activity, including but not limited to sexual intercourse, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, rape or inappropriate relations (including public displays of affection) on school premises, within a school context or when the learner/s are identifiable as Collegiate learners.;
Immoral conduct
Failure to report serious and major acts of misconduct and/or to assist or cooperate in the investigation of serious and major acts of misconduct, and failure to tell the truth/misleading actions as part of the investigative process or during a Disciplinary Hearing;
Any action which will bring the name of the school into disrepute, or undermines, deliberately or otherwise, the stated goals of the school (this is inclusive of all forms of social media);
Racism, discrimination, sexism and/or negative response to sexual orientation, i.e. all remarks/insults/slogans, either directly (verbal) or indirectly to peers, or on social media, which cause hurt or humiliation, divisiveness or disharmony, based on race, culture, language, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other form of prejudice.
2. ALCOHOL
2.1 The use of alcohol by a Collegiate learner, regardless of her age, is not permitted, on or off the campus, when she is involved in any school-related event or activity; is in school uniform; or is clearly identifiable by the general public as a Collegiate learner. (Use of alcohol includes: showing any evidence of the use of alcohol; the purchase or selling of alcohol; being in possession of alcohol; being under the influence of alcohol.)
2.2 Furthermore, in relation to alcohol, no learner is permitted to bring the School into disrepute at any time or place, or under any circumstances.
2.3 Moreover, School Prefects and Hostel Seniors are entrusted with the responsibility of being role models to others and custodians of the School's good name, reputation, values and standards. To uphold these values and to avoid any ambiguity, no Prefect or Hostel Senior may, during her term of office, consume any alcohol, except in the privacy of her own home whilst in the presence of her parents and with their consent.
3. NICOTINE, DRUGS AND OTHER BANNED SUBSTANCES
3.1 No learner may bring onto the school premises any form of alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, marijuana, intoxicating drugs or any other banned substance.
3.2 The possession, distribution and/or use of intoxicating drugs or any other banned substance in any place at any time is prohibited.
3.3 No learner may smoke or be in possession of nicotine or tobacco containing substances, electronic cigarettes or hubbly bubbly pipes, whilst in her school uniform, or when identifiable as a Collegiate learner.
3.4 Any learner found in possession of medication that has a schedule 4 or 5 classification, will within a 24 hour period make a copy of the medical script issued by a medical doctor available to the school. Should this certificate not be provided, the medication will be deemed an illegal substance.
4. GENERAL APPEARANCE (in the case of a dispute, the final decision will rest with the Principal).
Collegiate learners are expected to take pride in their appearance and to be neat and well-groomed. Unless otherwise stated, uniform must be worn at all school and sporting activities, including those of Grey High.
4.1 SCHOOL UNIFORM
• Name badges must be worn and visible on the top garment when at school.
• Dresses and gyms length must be a maximum of 8 cm above the knee.
• Regulation socks are to be folded over neatly. Only black secret socks may be worn underneath stockings.
• Regulation black opaque stockings which are laddered or torn may not be worn. A spare pair of stockings should be in a learner's possession at all times.
• Belts are to be worn appropriately with winter gyms.
• Jerseys are to be the correct size and may not be worn as the outer garment in the street, and may not have logos on them other than the school badge.
• Blazers form part of both summer and winter uniform and must be worn outside the school grounds (this includes when a learner enters or alights from a car when travelling to or from school). Blazers may be removed when in the classroom and during break; however, they must be put on again at the end of break.
• Blazers are to be worn for the duration of all formal functions, and when representing the school.
• When seated in a coffee bar or restaurant, learners may remove their blazers.
• No part of the tracksuit may be worn with the formal school uniform.
• Regulation school shoes must be worn.
• White scarves may be worn only by members of the 1st teams. No scarves may be worn at assemblies (be the assembly formal, informal or for a Carols Rehearsal) and formal functions when representing the school.
• Rainproof jackets may not be worn in a classroom.
• White Jackets are for sports and debating first teams, and may be worn in place of rain jackets.
• Tracksuits are sportswear and may not be worn in the classroom, except where House Dress is mandatory, or when a learner is required to change at second break into sports uniform either to attend a practice, Phys Ed, or a match directly after school.
• Learners who have Phys Ed classes must change back into their school uniform at the break following their Phys Ed lesson. Learners who have Phys Ed in the last lesson of the day, may go home in Phys Ed clothing.
• Drama learners may change into their Drama Practical Outfits after Assembly, or at 1st or 2nd break, depending on the time of their practical lesson. They must change back into their school uniform at the break following the Drama lesson. When not in the Drama classroom, they must wear a school tracksuit over their Drama Practical Outfit.
• Matric tops are informal wear, and may not be worn as part of the formal or sports uniform.
• Only officially designed and approved items may be worn as part of the formal school uniform.
• Regulation house t-shirts must be worn by competitors and spectators at specified House events.
4.2 HAIR
• Hair is to be clean and tidy. Specifically:
• If longer than collar length (with the exception of straight back cornrows), hair must be tied back neatly.
• Hair accessories: only plain navy, black, or dark brown are permitted. Sweat bands may be worn only for sport.
• Hair must be out of one's eyes.
• No leather accessories or butterfly/banana clips.
• Telephone wire must match the learner's natural hair colour.
• Hair should not be coloured or highlighted.
• Braids, cornrows and weaves are acceptable.
• Blow-dried hair and/or afro hair must be neatly combed and must be held back by a narrow navy or black band.
• No spiked, punk or any other unorthodox/ trendy styles are permitted eg. the following are not allowed: box braids, fade that exposes the scalp, Bantu/ Afro pops, twists (own hair), shaving all hair (except for cultural reasons, on condition that written permission is granted beforehand).
• Braiding must match the learner's natural hair colour.
• A bun and ponytail must be neat and tidy.
4.3 NAILS
• Should be of medium length so as not to draw unnecessary attention.
• Only clear nail varnish is permitted. False nails may not be worn at school. No tips nor French manicures are permitted.
4.4 SCHOOL BAGS
• Must be the regulation Collegiate school bag as purchased at the College Girl, or an identical navy school bag.
• Bags must be clearly marked inside with the owner's name and initials outside.
• Regulation school bags on wheels are permitted.
• Tog bags and backpacks (school regulation only) are only for sports equipment, not books (except during exams). No stickers or graffiti to be on bags carried with school uniform. No other bags are permitted.
4.5 SPORTS UNIFORM
• The regulation Physical Education kit must be worn at all Physical Education lessons and for all sports practices.
• Physical Education kit: Navy (regulation) shorts or skorts and white top.
• Team members must wear correct team uniform for all matches.
• Only school tracksuits may be worn with sports kit.
• No jerseys are to be worn with sports kit: only Collegiate warm-up tops are allowed.
• After Water Polo and Swimming practices and matches, learners may not leave the school premises wearing only a costume and towel.
• No makeup whatsoever is permitted.
• All clothing and belongings are to be clearly marked.
• Tattoos of any kind (permanent, temporary, henna or any other kind) must not be visible when wearing the school uniform or sports uniform.
• Wearing earphones in public whilst wearing school uniform is not permitted.
• No jewellery other than a watch or medic alert disc is permitted. All piercings must be empty.
• Chewing of gum or consumption of any other food stuff/substance, without permission, whilst wearing school uniform, formal or sport dress, is not permitted.
• Hitchhiking whilst in school uniform, formal or sport dress, is not permitted.
• All learners (with the exception of pupils belonging to faiths other than Christianity) must be in possession of an official School Hymn Book during an assembly.
• No learner may wear any item of uniform of another school, unless permission is granted.
• Only Collegiate blankets may be used in a classroom.
• During an examination period, any learner who comes into the school, and is not writing an exam, must be dressed in full school uniform.
5. PUNCTUALITY, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND SCHOOL/ EXTRA-MURAL ATTENDANCE
5.1 The bell rings at 07:40 at which time all pupils are to be in their classroom for the registration period.
5.2 Punctuality for all school activities and events is expected.
5.3 Learners are to move as quickly and quietly as possible between lessons in single file, and observing the keep left rule.
5.4 No learner may leave the school premises during school hours without prior permission from the Principal on written request from the Parent. When leaving, learners must present this signed permission note to the Secretaries' office.
5.5 In cases of illness, the learner is to report to the Grade Head with her note from her subject teacher. If the learner needs to go home, she will be sent down to the secretary, who will make the necessary arrangements. A Boarder must go to the Hostel Superintendent after seeing her Grade Head. She must inform the front office of her permission to return to the hostel. No learner may phone home and request to be fetched.
5.6 Learners are to be in the classroom during lesson times, and the public phone may be used only during break times or after school.
5.7 Bunking will not be tolerated.
5.8 All absences must be followed by the prescribed explanatory note form (available in the School Diary) from the parent to the Class Teacher on the day the learner returns to school. Additional copies of this form may be obtained from the class teacher.
5.9 A doctor's certificate or other recognised certificate is required if a learner misses a test, a formal assessment or an examination, or if the absence has been for more than three days. (This must be read in conjunction with the applicable section in the school diary.)
5.10 Learners are expected to attend school every day during term time unless prevented from doing so through illness or on genuine compassionate grounds.
5.11 Learners who have not attended school on a specific day, or who have left school early due to poor health, may not participate in any school activities on that day or evening.
5.12 Only a valid and reasonable excuse (made in writing and prior to the event) will be accepted if a learner is unable to attend any extra-mural activity's fixture, function or practice session or if they are unable to attend a compulsory activity as a spectator.
5.13 Attendance at school and prefect's detention is compulsory.
5.14 All learners are expected to behave in a manner conducive for constructive and effective learning in class, and ensure that they complete tasks, homework and assignments on time. At all times, learners must have the required stationery, books and e-books for each specific subject.
5.15 All textbooks, exercise books and resource centre books must be treated with the necessary care. Resource Centre material must be returned by the stipulated due date in the same condition as when taken out.
6. CLASSROOMS, SECURITY WITHIN THE SCHOOL GROUNDS, AND MOTOR VEHICLES
6.1 The following are out of bounds:
• The Hospitality, Consumer Studies and Art Rooms, all Laboratories, the Gym Hall and Auditorium, and all other classrooms, during break and after school, unless permission is granted by a teacher.
• The Hostel for day girls except by special permission from the Superintendent.
• The centre steps of the quadrangle.
• The Music corridor (except for a subject Music learner with the permission of a Music teacher).
• The front entrance except for evening functions, or when being fetched by a parent during school hours.
• The staffroom at all times.
• The main staircase to all girls, except the Prefects.
• The gallery above the stage except with permission from a teacher. The catwalk into the roof is out of bounds at all times.
• All gymnastic equipment unless a teacher is present.
• The entire garden area in front of the school.
• The Entrance Foyer except for those needing to see the Principal or Secretary or waiting to be fetched.
• Ivy Leaf, except during break or after school for special functions. Only Grade 12s may sit in the Ivy Leaf during breaks.
• Beyond the hockey field next to the astro turf and the entire area south of Jenkins way (i.e. the swimming pool side) during school hours.
6.2 Learners may not visit the buildings or grounds of another school while the latter is in session, except with due permission to do so.
6.3 Learners may not leave the school grounds without permission to do so;
6.4 Learners may not tamper with safety and other equipment on school premises;
6.5 Only one person at a time is allowed in a toilet cubicle. The privacy of a learner is to be respected at all times.
6.6 Water bottles may not be made from glass, and must be of a reasonable size.
6.7 No eating is allowed in a classroom (unless given permission by the teacher concerned), activity room or the Resource Centre.
6.8 All learners are to treat the campus of the school with respect at all times, and in particular, refrain from any form of littering.
6.9 Balloons are only allowed on the campus during the school day with the express permission of the Principal.
6.10 Parents or bona fide guests should announce themselves at the front office.
6.11 Learners are to remain within the school grounds whilst waiting to be fetched by parents. From 15:00, learners must be collected from the Kestell Street entrance.
6.12 Grade 12 learners who have a valid driver's license are allowed to apply for permission to park on the school grounds.
6.13 Reckless or negligent driving whilst identifiable as a Collegiate learner is not permitted, whether on or off the school property;
6.14 Girls are to be silent in the blue area.
7. EXEMPTION FROM THE SCHOOL RULES
Should a learner wish to apply for an exemption from a school rule, an application must be made in writing by the learner and her parents to the School Governing Body. |
Unilever to acquire OLLY Nutrition
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Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – Unilever announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire OLLY Nutrition, a premium U.S.-based wellbeing business in the vitamins, minerals, and supplements (VMS) category.
Based in San Francisco, California (U.S.), OLLY Nutrition was co-founded in 2014 by Eric Ryan, who also previously co-founded home and personal care products company method®. Established as a B Corp, OLLY Nutrition's mission is to make nutrition delightfully easy as it believes good health is the foundation of happiness. OLLY is known for its gummy vitamins and supplements, and also sells protein powders and snack bars.
"We are delighted to welcome OLLY Nutrition to our portfolio of brands. OLLY is a strong, innovative brand in the fast-growing health and wellbeing space, and nicely complements our businesses in Beauty & Personal Care and Foods & Refreshment. OLLY's focus on making nutrition delightfully easy aligns closely with Unilever values and our continued commitment to improving people's wellbeing," said Amanda Sourry, President of Unilever North America.
Eric Ryan, co-founder of OLLY, stated: "We are thrilled to work with Unilever to grow the OLLY brand and amplify our mission, culture and commitment to helping people feel happy inside out."
OLLY will continue to be based in San Francisco and managed by Eric Ryan, who will assume the role of Chief Growth Officer, exploring further opportunities in the health and wellbeing area; and Gerry Chesser, current COO of OLLY, who will take on the role as CEO of OLLY.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
Catherine Reynolds
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Where relevant, these actions are subject to the appropriate consultations and approvals.
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements, including 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 'will', 'aim', 'expects', 'anticipates', 'intends', 'looks', 'believes', 'vision', or the negative of these terms and other similar expressions of future performance or results, and their negatives, are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations and assumptions regarding anticipated developments and other factors affecting the Unilever Group (the 'Group'). They are not historical facts, nor are they guarantees of future performance.
Because these forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, there are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Among other risks and uncertainties, the material or principal factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are: Unilever's global brands not meeting consumer preferences; Unilever's ability to innovate and remain competitive; Unilever's investment choices in its portfolio management; inability to find sustainable solutions to support long-term growth; the effect of climate change on Unilever's business; customer relationships; the recruitment and retention of talented employees; disruptions in our supply chain; the cost of raw materials and commodities; the production of safe and high quality products; secure and reliable IT infrastructure; successful execution of acquisitions, divestitures and business transformation projects; economic and political risks and natural disasters; financial risks; failure to meet high and ethical standards; and managing regulatory, tax and legal matters. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this announcement. Except as required by any applicable law or regulation, the Group expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in the Group's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. Further details of potential risks and uncertainties affecting the Group are described in the Group's filings with the London Stock Exchange, Euronext Amsterdam and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the Annual Report on Form 20-F 2018 and the Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2018. |
After a successful inaugural year, the International Canine Health Awards are returning to celebrate the world's finest researchers and scientists in canine health.
Nominations are currently being sought for the prestigious awards, which are run by the Kennel Club Charitable Trust and include substantial cash prizes donated by Vernon and Shirley Hill of Metro Bank. They will be awarded at the world's biggest dog show, Crufts, at the NEC, Birmingham in March 2014 and are the largest veterinary awards in Europe.
With a prize fund totalling £60,000, the Kennel Club Charitable Trust is urging people to nominate deserving candidates by the deadline of November 22nd (deadline extended).
The International Canine Health Awards feature two categories open world-wide to celebrate work by dedicated individuals which has made significant advancements to dog health: the International Prize in Canine Health and the Lifetime Achievement Award. A third category is open only to students studying at a British veterinary university who have shown the greatest potential to advance canine health and welfare.
Mike Townsend, Chairman of the Kennel Club Charitable Trust said: "Following the high calibre of the nominations for the first year of the competition, we at the Kennel Club Charitable Trust are eagerly awaiting this year's nominations.
"Last year's winners, Dr Elaine Ostrander, Dr Gustavo Aguirre and student, Emily Milodowski all thoroughly encompassed the ethos of the awards; their work revolutionising dog health and ensuring the prize money will go a long way to help dogs in the future. In this year's nominees we are again looking for people who are passionate about helping improve the future of dog health and I am sure we will not be disappointed."
Vernon Hill, founder and Chairman of Metro Bank, and whose major gift underwrites the International Canine Health Awards, said: "We are proud to support these important awards for the second year in succession, to fund research that helps transform canine health by encouraging the same visionary thinking and innovation that Metro Bank champions. At Metro Bank, 'Dogs Rule'."
The Lifetime Achievement Award - presented to an individual who has made a significant impact on the world stage of canine health.
The International Prize in Canine Health Award - presented to an individual currently involved in world class innovation but with much still to contribute.
The Student Inspiration Award - specifically for individuals who have shown the greatest potential to advance canine health and welfare studying at a British veterinary school.
The awards will be judged by representatives from the veterinary profession and the world of scientific research, including experts in the nominees' selected fields.
To nominate one or more individuals for these awards, please contact Fay Moore via email at [email protected] or by post at Fay Moore, The Kennel Club Charitable Trust, 1-5 Clarges Street, Piccadilly, London, W1J 8AB. |
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What do a galaxy's colors mean? Are they its true colors? (Intermediate)
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Answered by Sara Slater
Why are galaxies the colors that they are, like when we see them through telescopes they are blue, white, red, sometimes purple or a mixture of colors. Would those be their true colors?
Here are a few colors you might see in galaxy images, and what they're usually caused by:
Blue: a region with many young stars. High-mass stars live fast and die young, using fuel at a high rate to maintain high temperatures. This causes them to emit hot radiation, which is blueish (google "blackbody radiation" to find out why).
Red: a region of old stars. The high-mass stars have swollen and cooled, and the low-mass stars were never hot to begin with, so they both emit cool radiation, which is reddish.
patches of red/pink: a so-called HII ("H-two") region. This is a cloud of ionized hydrogen (a cloud of free protons and electrons). When a proton captures an electron, it can give off light of various wavelengths as the electron hops down through energy levels. One particular hop, which is pretty common, emits red light, causing the HII region to appear reddish. HII regions are ionized in the first place by ultraviolet radiation from hot stars, so they indicate star-forming regions.
These are just a few features that happen to fall in the visible wavelength range; looking at radiation in the radio, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma ray wavelength regions can reveal many more galactic characteristics.
There is some alteration of the color before it is collected. Dust can make the image redder than it would be without dust. This happens because high-frequency (blue) light is more easily scattered by the dust than low-frequency (red) light. The color of a few galaxies is affected by distance; an extremely distant galaxy has a high recessional velocity due to the expansion of the universe, which causes its light to be shifted toward the red (google "relativistic Doppler shift"). Most galaxies distant enough for this to have a noticable effect on the color of an image are very faint. The exceptions are known as "quasars", and they produce so much radiation that they can be seen despite their extreme distance. In quasars the shift is so large that the light that we see wasn't even in the visible range when it was emitted.
By the way, whenever you look at an astronomical image, you need to check that the colors represent visible colors. Often astronomers will take images in wavelengths that are not visible to the eye, and then use colors to represent various wavelength bands.
This page was last updated June 28, 2015.
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Sara is a former Cornell undergraduate and now a physics graduate student at Harvard University, where she works on cosmology and particle physics.
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Sonos has always had a focus on creating meaningful partnerships. From music services to voice to our Works With Sonos certification program, we want to listen to our favorite audio content whenever and wherever. The launch of the Sonos sound platform in September opened up a world of new possibilities, with three main goals in mind – creating new opportunities for our partners, making our platform more open for developers, and providing listeners with natural and personal experiences. Unfortunately, if someone doesn't know how to code, it doesn't matter how open or useful our platform is – that's where IFTTT comes in.
IFTTT is such a natural fit for us, and our users have been asking for us to integrate with them for years. The launch of our open cloud-based Control API made this a possibility – and we wanted to get this out as soon as possible. A Sonos service on IFTTT lines up with so many of our values at Sonos, allowing us to integrate with hundreds of services, including Nest, Philips Hue, Ring, GE Smart Appliances, allowing our listeners to use their Sonos in completely new and groundbreaking ways.
If you're unfamiliar with IFTTT, here's a quick rundown of what it is: IFTTT has integrated with hundreds of different products, websites and content providers, called services. They have millions of users using their product today that allow you to create applets, that consist of an "if" portion referred to as a trigger and a "then" portion, or action. For example, if someone rings my doorbell, then tweet "Somebody's at my door". With IFTTT, anyone can create incredibly useful additions to their system which would be complicated to code from the ground up.
Essentially, IFTTT acts as a translator between our API and IFTTT users. In order to make this possible, we created IFTTT-specific endpoints in order to feed info from your Sonos system to IFTTT (to build lists of players & favorites, for example), and from IFTTT to your system. For example, this command which resumes playback on a group called RINCON_00012345678001400:0 may look something like this.
POST /groups/RINCON_00012345678001400:0/playback:1/play HTTP/1.1 Host: api.ws.sonos.com/control/v1 Content-Type: application/json Authorization: Bearer <token>
POST /groups/RINCON_00012345678001400:0/playback:1/play HTTP/1.1
Host: api.ws.sonos.com/control/v1
Authorization: Bearer <token>
In IFTTT, a similar request may look like this.
We've done this for a total of 11 actions for our beta release. Our most popular actions are Play Favorite, which allows listeners to play a preselected Sonos favorite on a chosen group, and Pause, which pauses a specified player, or group.
What is the best way to show how powerful our API is while maintaining simplicity and ease of use? The biggest challenges we faced stemmed from the understanding that IFTTT users don't have as much freedom as a developer working directly with our APIs. We needed to make sure to balance having enough options when enabling actions without overcomplicating.
In this process, we made a few particularly difficult decisions.
One issue we wanted to address was an "Everywhere" option within our IFTTT applets. In our desktop and mobile controllers, we have the option to instantly group all speakers. For our IFTTT integration, we needed to think carefully about when our listeners would utilize this functionality. We could make room grouping its own Action, or add it in as an option within certain Actions. For example, it made total sense to group all speakers when pausing, but would anyone want to resume all of their speakers at one time? We decided to have three options for room grouping – one single specified player, the group containing the specified player, or everywhere.
While we believe having room grouping options (as opposed to Actions) is a better implementation, we quickly realized that we approached it from the wrong angle. The current process in creating an Applet to play a favorite playlist on all your speakers is:
IF (Trigger)
[whatever trigger you want to use e.g. location, button]
THEN (Action)
Play Favorite
What favorite do you want to play?
Where do you want to play? (Kitchen, Dining Room, Bedroom)
Include grouped rooms? (this room only, include grouped rooms, everywhere)
If you're trying to play everywhere, you first have to select a single speaker, and we are considering moving the Everywhere option to the "Where do you want to play?" selection (Kitchen, Dining Room, Bedroom, everywhere).
Volume controls also fall into a similar category. We currently have Volume (Up, Down, Set, Mute, and Unmute) as standalone actions, but a Set Volume option in the Play Favorite Action could be useful for routines, alarms, or an instant party. IFTTT has a great feedback mechanism built in, and we've been reading and understanding how Sonos users would connect their system to their smart home.
All in all, we're incredibly proud to have launched our Sonos service on IFTTT. Our goal is to make this the best experience possible, and trying to best understand what it means for Sonos to be the sound of the connected home.
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Sonos is focused on helping our listeners to listen better. Our open sound platform allows integrations that were previously unimaginable, and allows anyone to build and create novel experiences. Kind of. We understand "anyone" is actually limited to people who have the time, skill, and motivation. With IFTTT, listeners can easily choose and enable exactly what they believe will enhance their Sonos experience.
Our plan is to keep the IFTTT experience parallel to our APIs on our platform. Our new playlists API makes it possible to pick and play any of your Sonos playlists. And our new audioClip API allows for short audio clips and notifications to be played over your Sonos system. Imagine your Sonos speakers being able to notify you when your laundry is complete, when someone rings your doorbell, or even read aloud tweets you're mentioned in. As our platform continues to grow and improve, our IFTTT integration will too. We're excited to see what you'll build! Check out our favorite IFTTT applets here:
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By Mark Elliott On Jul 27, 2017
Hotel On The Park has 448 rooms
The Theme Park Hotel in the Resorts World Genting, the Malaysian integrated resort, has been rebranded.
The oldest hotel at the park, dating back to the 1970s, the Theme Park Hotel was formerly known as the Highlands Hotel but was renamed when a theme park was built next to it.
Following another refresh, the property will now be known as "Hotel On The Park". The hotel still retains its 448 rooms, but its interiors have been revamped with creative theme.
In the lobby, giant tea cups, benches and mirrors are designed to reflect an "Alice in Wonderland" style, while public bathrooms are decorated with green and white polka dots, and all of the hotel's directional signs appear hand-written. A new casual F&B outlet has also been launched.
"It's an old structure, based on a boxy, old school, industrial design. We wanted something exciting, new and different," said Edward Holloway, senior vice president of hotel operations for Resorts World Genting. "We went to design a surreal hotel which was stripped to the bare minimum to provide more bed space, but one that would have all the expected things drawn in."
The family-oriented hotel is located close to the new Twentieth Century Fox World, which is scheduled to open in the coming months.
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Glentoran will be taking nothing for granted when they travel to Dergview this afternoon in the first round of the Samuel Gelston's Whiskey Irish Cup.
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Boss Mick McDermott is all to aware of the threat posed by an underdog in this competition having been pushed all the way by Queen's a couple of years ago. A last-gasp winner from
Robbie McDaid gave the Glens the win in a five-goal thriller that day as they went on to lift the cup.
And McDermott is expecting another tough test in this first-ever competitive meeting between the sides, especially with the likes of Bennie Igiehon in fine form for Tommy Canning's side.
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"Obviously, we don't know as much about Dergview as we would about a Premiership opponent, but we had them watched at Dundela last weekend," he told the club website.
"That was a 2-2 draw, so we got a very thorough report on them. It will be a hard game and we are under no illusions.
"We got it tight a couple of years ago at Queen's University. We won 3-2 that day and it was tight right to the end until Robbie got the winner. So we know anything can happen in a cup tie."
The Glens slipped to their first defeat in 14 games at home to Larne last week but McDermott is hoping the inclusion of new signings Michael O'Connor and Sean Murray will help them get it out of their system quickly.
"While we were all disappointed with last week's league defeat against Larne, we'll bounce back quickly from it," he said.
"We will not over-think the result too much because of the extent of the players we had missing – and the quality of the players we have coming in. But with the new boys now available, we are looking forward to the second half of the season.
"Of our new players, Michael and Sean will be available for Saturday.
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Jennifer Eva Carolina "Jenny" Gal (ur. 2 listopada 1969) – holenderska judoczka. Brązowa medalistka olimpijska z Atlanty.
Zawody w 1996 były jej drugimi igrzyskami olimpijskimi, wcześniej startowała w 1992. Medal zdobyła w wadze półśredniej, do 61 kilogramów. W barwach Holandii zdobyła srebrny medal mistrzostw świata w 1995, zwyciężyła w mistrzostwach Europy w 1995, była trzecia w 1988, 1989 i 1996. W barwach Włoch zdobyła srebro kontynentalnego czempionatu w 1999 i startowała w igrzyskach w 2000.
Judoczką i olimpijką była również jej siostra Jessica Gal i mąż Giorgio Vismara.
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This topic will sum up suggestions and thougts about "How to improve the Game" [~ I wil update the first post frequently, so don't wonder about the amount] ___________________________________
I would just like to provide a quote from Iustus' Y1 student adventure:
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@Rhialtohey thanks for mentioning katawa shoujo, i played years ago and i remembered Shizune being a bit like Cinzia but havent done her before so doing her route on Pc, also just downloaded on androi
my edit 2 came to late so here again: ^^
I think it would be a good thing to remind the player early in Y2 again about the consequences they have to expect if ever it get to known that (s)he learn forbidden magic. After all for some player it might be years ago when they played Y1 or it even that Y2 is their first contact with this game.
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Yeah, and we need warnings when you are straying into peril, too.
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@Legate of Mineta: In all fairness, none of the content which I have written has the PC saying or doing anything that would explicitly conform that he/she is practising gates magic. If what I have written is too explicit, though, I welcome feedback.
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I'm probably a minority in the playerbase, but I'd like it if it was a bit easier to unintentionally make enemies with other students.
As far as I've found in the game, the way to simulate a character who is a little abrasive (but isn't actually deliberately harassing anyone) is with Make Good Noise At The Crier's Stone with a side order of Aventyrare's Private Office, but I'll only use them until the skills/study levels are maxed. Then using Every Planet In Its House for any students that I do want to particularly befriend. And occasionally getting the chance to butt heads in an RE, but those don't always result in an actual relationship loss. (I also start with the Bitter Hatred background feature, but Descended From Traitors is mutually exclusive with Black Sheep, which I can't not take.)
But I get so much relationship gains from so many other sources, that it often just gets canceled out. I have to skip class just to avoid making friends. (That's the only reason, I swear!)
I think it would be interesting if being generally liked was something that you had to work more at, especially if you have low Charm.
It is already mentioned that during the holiday between Y1 and Y2 your relationships will slowly drop toward 0 if your not working on it.
Yes, and they'll raise to 0 if they are in the negatives. You lose both good and bad relationships, because you're just not on people's minds. It's also been hinted that having high grades will lead to relationship trouble with certain characters.
I think it would be cool if there were more ways to continue having trouble throughout the year, particularly relating to your character just not being good at people, that don't necessarily mean your character is actively trying to hurt others.
Maybe attending class could give you a chance of either gaining or losing relationship with another character from that class, depending on the state of your Charm or Befriend, etc.
One issue I foresee with that suggestion is that the other side of the fence would than feel like high Charm/Befriend (or other attributes/skills) is mandatory in order to not make unnecessary enemies, and Y2 is already going to have high Glory, high grades, college rivalries and a few other sources eating away at your relationships. It's a fair point that roleplaying as someone more socially stunted (or however you'd prefer to phrase it) is kinda difficult with all the build-in relationship gains, but it's not like that really amounts to much after the summer vacation wipes the slate clean.
That's true, I just threw the classes out as an example, but it would be better to do something that was opt-in. The Good Noise At The Crier's Stone blanketly says that you will annoy someone, but there's nothing forcing you to use the ability. Even just "more like that" would be nice.
Summer relationship degrading doesn't mean much to me for either friendships or enemies, since the whole point is roleplaying while you're at school. It also isn't a total reset. If you have max relationship with someone it probably won't hit 0, even if you do nothing about it. It just won't be max anymore.
Alternatively, maybe more of the relationship gains could be opt-in, such as an action like "Study with Classmates" that can pair study levels with r-gains and other rewards, but no r-gains from the Study Levels themselves.
I doubt I'll come up with any perfect ideas for exactly how this could be implemented, but it's the general character type that I think it would be cool to be kept in mind while developing. (And still keeping other character types and the majority playerbase in mind of course.)
I think the reason why the "Zoedorf" region is called like a village could be something interesting for a ingame lore.
Because I'm no lore collector I don't know if it isn't already in Y1 or planed for Y2.
*Agreed*
@Legate of Mineta: Here is a suggestion for a PC with a rivalry with Lambert Cobo who has completed the ghost's Y1 adventure. Lambert suggests that they should duel in a place where they can both use unrestricted magics, and the PC can then try to find such a place. Once such a place is found, the PC could challenge Lambert to a duel where the two would try to use gates magic against each other - or at least Lambert wants the PC to think that he can.
I'll pass it on!
@Legate of Mineta: Are there any plans to have certain duels or combat with special conditions associated with them (such as using only nonmagical attacks)? If so, I have some suggestions for conditions.
Yep, and go right ahead!
@Legate of Mineta: Here is 1 type, which I call "Six Spells Before Battle":
1. Each side must first attempt to use any three spells which improve their own bodies or minds. Failure to attempt such a spell (by for example attacking the foe) results in disqualification (in-game, losing the duel).
2. Next, each side must attempt to use any three spells which protect them against attacks (magical or otherwise). Failure to attempt such a spell (by for example attacking the foe) results in disqualification (in-game, losing the duel).
3. A conventional duel is fought in which both sides can do whatever they want.
If this type of duel could be implemented, then I have other similar suggestions.
Rhi;
I'll certainly send the suggestion.
@Legate of Mineta: As I write more content for Y2 which reflects a PC with the trait "Prodigy: On the Prowl", I wonder whether Y2, like Y1, will have adventure(s) which require the trait "Prodigy: On the Prowl".
I could not say.
@Legate of Mineta: I just thought that you should know that in my writing about Uliva, I have been guided by the thought that she engages in behaviour which would not be out of place for an evil or creepy character - but for completely innocent (even cute) reasons. Is this a good approach to writing her?
22 hours ago, Legate of Mineta said:
Professor Pachait once came across as stuffed one that was on display with a traveling carnival, but since they refused to sell it to him and he couldn't successfully steal it it's not available for student reference."
@Legate of Mineta: Could I use this travelling carnival as the place for my adventure with the talking dolphin?
34 minutes ago, Legate of Mineta said:
"Part of the Venalicium's restricted collection is an object called the Albanetti Stone. It was discovered about a hundred fifty years ago, as an ancient (and strange) vinyard in Porziana was plowed over to prepare for a new canal; astrologers think it was buried seven or eight hundred years before that.
It's sandstone, about sixteen feet (with a Minetan foot equal to about 30 cm) long, five feet wide, and three feet deep. Both the "top" and "bottom" sides are covered in engraved script - one side using familiar Renaglian letters, the other using something else entirely. Neither side has been deciphered, even with astrological help.
The vinyard in question was a site of documented Gates activity about 600 years ago - well after the point at which the stone was buried, but still conspicuously close enough to make people worry. Granted, most scholars believe it was an elaborate hoax, but there's a vocal minority that claims it's some kind of study of a Draconic language, or something from another kind of existence altogether."
Could I have the Triplets mentioning this stone? Not in terms of knowing its meaning, but in terms of maybe being aware of it and maybe hoping to study it. Tabin, after all, is associated with Porziana, Magsa loves strange artifacts and languages, and Sima is a seller of strange artifacts (she claims/hints...). |
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Statement: New ownership at Walsall FC
Walsall Supporters for Change wish to put on record our delight at the news that Leigh Pomlett has become the new Chairman of Walsall Football Club.
For the club to be under new ownership and with a plan in place to re-unite Walsall FC with the freehold is a truly historic turn of events.
Our club has stagnated in recent times, moved backwards and become antiquated. This has caused a rift and toxicity between the club and supporters that could not have been rectified under the previous ownership.
With this appointment we look forward with cautious optimism to seeing a new approach and continued success with Mr. Pomlett at the helm.
We would urge supporters who has been staying away from The Banks's Stadium to return. Now is the time to get behind the new Chairman, behind the new Manager, and behind our new team. A new era is here, so let's support OUR Walsall FC.
One of our key aims as an organisation was to work towards a change of ownership. With this being realised ahead of everybody's expectations we will now seek to foster a positive relationship with the new Chairman and his Board of Directors and work towards achieving positive outcomes for the football club and the fans.
We will continue to voice your concerns, and work on behalf of supporters to ensure this new era at Walsall FC prompts positive and lasting change. |
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Sony has officially launched PlayStation Vue, a television streaming service available through PS4 and PS3. The service is now available in three cities throughout the United States.
PlayStation Vue is meant as a competitor for cable and satellite providers. Subscribers can access live TV along with on-demand shows, movies and sports through their PlayStation consoles.
"Your favorite shows and channels will always be front and center whenever you start PlayStation Vue," Sony Network Entertainment VP Eric Lempel said on PlayStation.Blog. "When you are looking for something new and exciting to watch, powerful discovery tools will help you filter thousands of shows in just moments, so you can search less and watch more. The cloud based DVR lets you save your favorite shows with no programming conflicts and store recorded episodes for up to 28 days."
PlayStation Vue is now available in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia following beta tests in those areas. Los Angeles was one of the locations for the beta as well so I suspect PS Vue will launch in that area next.
"We want to get to a lot of cities very quickly. This is the most complex thing we've launched since starting the network," Lempel told Gamespot. "Everything we've launched usually comes out by country. In this case, because we felt local programming was important to the users, we wanted to make sure we got those deals signed so that it involves the local affiliates individually. But this year, we will be delivering a lot of new markets, so it's something that will evolve very quickly."
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Like other entertainment apps, PlayStation Vue won't require a PlayStation Plus subscription. Sony is currently offering a 7-day free trial for the service, though you'll need to provide a credit card to take advantage of it.
While PlayStation Vue is currently only available on PS4 and PS3, other devices will be supported in time as well. For example, an iPad release is expected in the "near future" according to the PlayStation Blog post.
Cheaper, streaming alternatives to cable and subscription are all the rage these days. Yesterday Dish Network's Sling TV launched on Xbox One with subscriptions starting at $20. HBO will soon launch a standalone service of their own called HBO Now. |
Amount of liquid stored in oceans vs. atmosphere is enormous. If you could take all the water in the Earth's atmosphere and precipitate it out, it would only be a few inches deep. So it doesn't take much surface water coverage to maintain global precipitation.
That's not entirely so. If you have only a limited area from which to evaporate, you'll get an atmosphere that will contain less water vapor than if evaporation could happen from a wider area. So, if all the other parameters are the same, a planet with small oceans should be less humid than a planet with vast oceans.
This said, it's true that terrestrial plants, by retaining water, can create evaporation where there would be none without them. So a planet with small oceans but vast areas covered by terrestrial plants would probably tend to have more moisture in the atmosphere than a planet wth no terrestrial plants but large oceans.
Underground rivers and lakes, obviously the plants have very deep roots.
Free mode flying in 0.9.7.1 beta is very difficult bug?
Nothing has changed with the free camera controls and behavior, so if things are different for you then something is wrong.
As for flying space ships, it's made to be more realistic than in previous versions. If you want to enable old-style flight controls for a ship (unlimited acceleration in any direction), enter the cheat code "ufo" into the console.
enter the cheat code "ufo" into the console.
Is there something wrong with the universe generation with vers 0.9.7.1?
-Life seems to be generated mostly around pale dwarves only, and most of the Earth-like planets that I've found so far that are located into the habitable zone of the star are tidal locked.
Well, this would probably be the same case in real life, since red dwarfs are the most common type of star in the universe. Life around orange dwarfs is also common, but not as much. Life around yellow-dwarfs(Sun) is quite rare, I have to agree maybe a bit too rare, and life around white main-sequence stars is also too rare in my opinion.
Exactly! I said this some time ago, and it looks like I am not the only one. Titans with life are everywhere. IMO these should be very rare since life is quite unlikely to develop in such harsh conditions, and we honestly dont even know if it exists, like you said. Oceanias, and especially Terras, are way, way too rare in this version.
The ubiquity of subglacial and floater life is probably because there are far fewer terras and oceanias than ice worlds, gas giants, and titans. Since liquid water needs a narrow range of temperatures and far bigger parts of space are frigid. Fortunately, the life-bearing chances of the various planet types can be adjusted in universe.cfg.
Oceanias, and especially Terras, are way, way too rare in this version.
But you can't rise the amout of % of finding chances.
...but I'm still finding plenty. Another idea?
Odd, that should work. If it doesn't, it might be bugged.
So I have a surface pro 2 now because I took my galaxy note back to the store for several reasons I won't get into. Although SpaceEngine wasn't one of those reasons (due to the lower specs/integrated graphics) but it still runs... well, OK at low settings.
Although I don't expect most tablets to be able to handle SE, many laptops are now coming with touch screens. I did a little searching and I'm not sure if it's been discussed before- having some kind of alternate control scheme for capacitive touch screen displays. This would be something akin to the controls for Google Earth's iOS and Android ports.
At least the Surface will let me use a keyboard and mouse. Also, turning down the mouse sensitivity makes the camera usable if you want to use the touch screen. I don't think this should be a high priority at the moment but it's a thought.
I'm just asking if someday, once all the more important things are fully implemented, SE could have a few such filters to enhance image production with the program. Maybe as plugins, maybe as scripts, something to be added only if you like those things and want to use them. It wouldn't be relevant to scientific representation or as a gaming feature, but it could be so artistically.
An example might be the distortion of light/wavelengths/colors/FOV at relativistic speeds, which was discussed before.
When adding or modifying galaxies in the galaxy catalog, the file is very hard and annoying to edit, because it is so big it easily makes notepad crash. IMO it would be better to have a galaxy catalog file for every Hubble type of galaxy, like "galaxies_SBc.sc", "galaxies_Sc.sc", "galaxies_E0-9.sc", "galaxies_S0", "galaxies_Irr.sc" etc. |
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GlenAllachie Visitor Centre
The GlenAllachie Distillery launches new visitor centre, shop and special bottling for the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival
The GlenAllachie Distillery is gearing up for the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival by launching its new visitor centre and shop, unveiling some exclusive releases and staging three events.
The new visitor centre includes a shop offering a range of branded merchandise, plus two single cask whiskies exclusive to the shop: a 12 year old and 29 year old, both hand-selected by Billy Walker. The shop also offers visitors the chance to hand-fill their own bottle straight from a cask.
The 12 year old distillery exclusive, which is £95, was matured in a Bourbon barrel and Walker describes it as tasting of "honey, apricots and mocha, with hints of mint". The 29 year old, which is £350, was matured in a Hogshead and Walker handpicked it for its taste of "toffee apples, mocha, pineapples and dark chocolate".
Walker said: "The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival is a highlight of the year with whisky fans from all the over the world flocking to the region. For many, this will be the first chance they've had to visit our distillery, visitor centre and shop and sample our single malt. I wanted to make the best possible first impression so I've personally selected two casks, which I believe provide wonderful examples of the type of single malt whisky we're producing here."
Visitors can now choose from two tour options:
'THE WEE ALLACHIE TOUR' – £15 – A 1-hour tour around the production area with a sampling of three drams & a £5 redeemable voucher against any whisky purchases over the price of £40.
'THE CONNOISSEURS TOUR' – £50 – A 2-hour access-all-areas experience which includes a visit to a warehouse and the tasting room for a 5-dram tutored tasting. Finish your experience in our brand-new visitor centre, with a £10 redeemable voucher against whisky purchases over the price of £90.
The new visitor centre will be managed by Karen McWilliam who has extensive experience, having previously worked with GlenDronach distillery.
McWilliam said: "This is a historic and exciting time for everyone here at GlenAllachie as we start to welcome people to our new visitor centre and to take a tour of the distillery for the first time in over 50 years. For a long time, the distillery has been one of Speyside's best-kept secrets, but now we're creating our own history with our single malts and the gates are open to everyone."
Special Speyside Festival Events and Bottling
The Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival takes place across the region from 1-6 May. As a Silver Partner, The GlenAllachie Distillery is staging three special events and releasing a single cask exclusive to the Spirit of Speyside Festival.
The GlenAllachie Spirit of Speyside bottling, which is £95, is a 13 year old malt matured in a Port pipe. Walker describes it as "brimming with heather honey, damsons, nutmeg and cinnamon with hints of mocha and rose hips."
GlenAllachie Spirit of Speyside – 2006 / cask # 1850 / 13 years [£95]
Port Pipe / 59.2%
Colour: Rich Ruby.
Nose: Waves of honey, sweet spice and greengages, with gentle notes of mocha.
Taste: Brimming with heather honey, damsons, nutmeg and cinnamon with hints of mocha and rose hips.
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Matt Lawson
Giving, a lifelong commitment
Through his dedication to campus, Matt Lawson reveals his philanthropic spirit
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Lawson, 23, is the Student Government Association (SGA) president and a political science major.
A philanthropic spirit is often born from early experiences. It may be one cause a person is passionate about or a powerful experience that grabs your attention and drives you to contribute for the benefit of others. It may start small, a mere interest in helping move something forward, and before you know it, it snowballs into a lifetime of giving back.
For many, a lifelong tendency toward giving back starts in college. Students like Matt Lawson, for instance, get involved with activities and organizations that will benefit their overall educational experience, and they soon learn that their involvement has larger impact than they originally had imaged. The Indiana University Northwest senior is a shining example of what one's commitment to campus can really mean. And how one person's involvement has the power to spur others toward action.
Lawson, 23, is the Student Government Association (SGA) president and a political science major. In his role, he brings the concerns of students to the attention of the administration by serving on committees, such as the IU Northwest Council, and representing the All University Student Association (AUSA) at IU's Board of Trustees meetings.
"Students are the lifeblood of the University. We are the reason everyone is here and so it's important for our voices to be heard," Lawson said. "And, the administration wants that representation. We all have to be more proactive in actually doing that."
It takes a student like Lawson to lead that charge. Not only to fill the student seats at the meetings, but to illustrate why their role matters and how it is actually an effective means of improving the college experience for all students. Even more than that, Lawson's example, and those of other student leaders, serve another, bigger purpose, and that is to inspire others to become involved in campus activities.
There is hard proof that Lawson's personal involvement is contagious. In the three years that Lawson has been at IU Northwest, and involved in the SGA, the group has grown from four to nine members and has a much larger presence on campus. SGA members are at the forefront of demonstrating to students, and everyone with a stake in the campus, how their involvement makes for a thriving campus life and a personalized educational experience.
"When people see that students are involved in giving back to their campus and contributing to an active, involved community of students, they tend to see the value in their contributions and want to contribute themselves," Lawson said.
A recent example, Lawson said, was when students rallied together during Philanthropy Week – delivering coffee, writing thank-you notes, showcasing the ways in which students' lives are impacted – all in an effort to spread awareness of what gifts to IU Northwest accomplish.
Students, although they are among those who need support the most, are certainly among the University's biggest givers of time and talent. Through their involvement, they share valuable skills and insight from their diverse experiences that help others immeasurably. At the same time, their future philanthropic decisions come into sharper focus, shaped by their personal experiences as students.
A first-generation college student, Lawson said he fell into the category of students who couldn't rely on wealth or exemplary academic achievement to have his schooling paid for. As someone who is paying for school without the help of scholarships, he knows that there will never be enough scholarship assistance to go around, but that the impact is significant for those who do receive it.
"A lot of people miss out on college for monetary reasons," Lawson said. "The people in the middle are those with extenuating circumstances and (scholarships) make it easier to bear that burden."
In the future, Lawson says his philanthropic efforts will focus on assisting students much like himself through scholarships.
"I definitely won't forget IU Northwest and its influence on me," Lawson said. "I know that once I do become prosperous, I'll be back. And, I'll give in a variety of ways."
Lawson has also been on the receiving end of others' time and talent, from the professors who have given him extra time to the administrators who have counseled him toward his own growth as a leader and professional. Thanks to them, he feels ready to tackle law school and pursue his aspirations of public service as a future Congressman.
IU Northwest has afforded him the opportunity to fully tap into his potential. He describes himself as a typical student who has grown into a leader and professional.
"Being involved not only prepares you for the real world but it will also help you academically," Lawson said. "I attribute the improvement in my academics to being involved here on campus. Some students think that you can just come to school, get a degree and get a good job, and that's not how it works. That is something that I have learned about being involved on campus." |
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This story starts, as many great stories do, in a basement, when Drew Wolf and neighborhood friend Larry Klebanoff set out to create a very different kind of company. And while the business they co-founded, League Collegiate Outfitters, began as an apparel company in an already overcrowded market of collegiate apparel manufacturers, from the outset, the company set out to distinguish itself. One way it has achieved that is through its wide range of high quality, vintage-inspired sportswear that has proved highly popular on college campuses nationwide. Another way is in the care that League takes of the very people who make that apparel.
Eighteen years later, having partnered with Central American University to build an impressive array of employee programs ranging from childcare to free meal programs, Bolaños believes the approach he's taking at the LCA factory, located near the capital of San Salvador, is winning a war against crime, poverty and hopelessness. "When we opened our factory here, I think people thought we were crazy to want to try to rehabilitate gang members, or offer our workers a childcare center, or special living accommodations for handicapped workers," Bolaños says. However, the steps League has taken have brought great results.
Ironically, with over 15 percent of the workforce now comprised of rehabilitated gang members, it's served to make the work community safer, and once stabilized, Bolaños encourages self-improvement. Surprisingly, rather than recoup their investment in training life-long employees, the workers at LCA are instead encouraged to pursue careers outside of the company with more earning potential — or even to start their own businesses.
League Collegiate Outfitters apparel is displayed in the Barnes & Noble at University of Delaware campus bookstore.
It's an employee model that impresses Barnes & Noble College's Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer, Joel Friedman, and has enabled League to be the exclusive suppliers of the company's Red Shirt proprietary brand. "How our partners treat their employees is something that has always been very important to us — and what's particularly remarkable about League is that as they help their workers to become more productive citizens, allowing them to move up in society. League can then go back into the community to rehire for those positions to help even more members of the community," he says.
Bolaños is particularly proud of the difference he sees in children, who would have previously been recruits for one of El Salvador's notorious gangs. "When you can go to them and say that when you finish school, you'll have a job with us and access to college — what happens is the whole community is transformed," he says. Bolaños gives the example of a local school, which now has zero student dropouts, and whose pupils now feel they have a future. When he is asked what these enlightened employee practices do for a company like League, Bolaños says this, "We get our production out on time, our employees now have hope and it becomes more like a family." He also says that while having an impact at a local level, what League is doing is also helping to develop the country as a whole. "They win — absolutely," Friedman says. "Their employees benefit — and we benefit with the kind of quality merchandise we can stock in our bookstores and offer to our students. It may very well be a humanitarian model, but it works on every level," he says.
LCA President Rodrigo Bolaños and League co-owner Larry Klebanoff receive the U.S. Secretary of State's award for Corporate Excellence-El Salvador from United States Ambassador Jean Manes.
With merchandise now in over 1,600 schools, and manufacturing out of two production centers, League has come a long way from that Philadelphia basement, but it's been more than just a business success story. The company has recently been presented with the U.S. Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence-El Salvador, the FIRST Award for Responsible Capitalism for educational and hiring programs, as well as by the Financial Times ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Award for corporate responsibility/environment. "They're open and unafraid to try new things," Friedman says, "and that resonates with our students. We have a whole new generation on our college campuses who are continuing to expand their interest in social issues. For them, giving back is critical — and I just don't see that going away anytime soon. If anything, it will become more and more powerful," he says. |
Butterball, the world's largest vertically integrated turkey processor, has committed to developing foodservice products to meet K-12 specifications and hired an industry veteran to lead its new national program.
As consumer interest in buying Butterball turkey ranks high, young scholars can now enjoy a variety of turkey items from a trusted and familiar brand for their school meals and snacks.
Butterball's K-12 portfolio will include unique turkey options, such as a cooked seasoned thigh roast and roasted sliced tenderloin medallions, as well as traditional favorites. Many of these offerings are formulated to have lower sodium, Child Nutrition labeling and other ingredient attributes suited to K-12. Butterball's turkeys are raised in America, and the company's high standards for animal care and well-being have achieved independent verification from the American Humane Association as the first American Humane Certified U.S. turkey brand.
National Program Director for K-12 Schools Jennifer Armstrong came to Butterball Foodservice with a track record of increasing regional and national sales to K-12 schools, colleges and universities, having worked in the foodservice industry for more than 30 years. An active member of the School Nutrition Association and the American Commodity Distribution Association, she understands the complexities of school nutrition programs and the challenges that the people who run them face on a daily basis in their effort to serve healthy, flavorful meals to the nation's youth, the company stated.
At Butterball, Armstrong is responsible for overseeing the development and rollout of products and recipes that meet K-12 standards and align with the evolving tastes and preferences of this growingly diverse age group. She's also collaborating with the company's dedicated, nationwide broker network to leverage Butterball's brand strength and vertical integration to ensure the new products address the intricate requirements of the K-12 segment. |
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The Health Day started early. As we entered the Education Center, I felt a rush of excitement looking at the rows of chairs and the big white tent. Those seat were going to fill with patients excited for the free check up we were offering them. Doctors came in early with eagerness to help the Mauritians who don't have the means to get proper medical attention. Immediately we started to prepare for the big day. We tidied up the center so that patients will easily know where to go and who to talk to. We arranged booths for doctors so that pateints could be seen in a private setting. We set up the table where free food was going to be offered. As the Health Day begun, people started coming in a steady rate. First were our students. I felt a pang in my heart when I saw them get their vitals and vision checked. These students who come from difficult backgrounds, who offered me so much love and exhibit so much potential, were receiving healthcare. There were times during our program when students were unable to come to the center because they were ill. It reminded me again and again that without health, education is meaningless, and by ensuring their health, I felt ELI-Africa was offering the one of the best gifts we could give me. Soon, the parents of the students and the local residents flowed in. We were very busy. There were constantly lines of people waiting to be called in. Things very well could have ended up chaotic. However, our fellows and volunteers were on top of organizing and making sure everything went smoothly. Moreover our students helped a tremendous amount. Top FM came to help as well, and they entertained the patients and the students, so that everyone was having a great time. Weetabix and Top FM and Merci brought in delicious food and snacks that everyone enjoyed. In three hours, we had seen more than 200 patients. In the afternoon, we had a ceremony where we thanked our sponsors and volunteers, and then it was our students' time. We danced together, sang together, and presented to our local community all the hard work that we had done. There was no doubt that the students impressed the audience, as they were taking pictures, laughing with joy, and clapping enthusiastically. As I watched the students perform, I could stop my tears falling. I loved these children– whom I may have never met without ELI Africa– more than I ever imagined I would. I was sad that I was leaving them the next day. I was missing them already before I was leaving. I prayed for them, that their life would allow them all the opportunity they deserve and foster their potential, because they can all become amazing individuals who change the world. I wished I could stay in Mauritius to be with them side-by-side as they are growing up. I promised to myself that I would be there for them even though I would be on the other side of the earth. I could see that I wasn't the only one thinking this, as the eyes of our fellows were also watery. I was overwhelmed with emotion, and was thankful for such an amazing day, the amazing experience.
Overall, the Health Day was a tremendous success. It could not have been any better. I want to thank our sponsors and volunteers, especially the doctors who gave up their precious time despite their impossible schedule. The two months of ELI Africa would not have been possible without their support and generosity. |
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George Graham Reviews Colin Linden's "Easin' Back to Tennessee"
With the blues being deeply at the root of most rock-oriented music, there is a certain attraction that many rockers feel toward the blues. Most famously, there was the British Blues movement of the 1960s that started when some young English musicians came across records of American traditional blues artists, who ironically had faded into obscurity in the US. These young Brits absorbed Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, and Son House and became some of the biggest names in rock -- the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, even Fleetwood Mac.
In recent years, the authentic blues from veteran performers has been experiencing a considerable revival, but the music still holds an appeal for artists whose main musical territory might be outside the strictly traditional. This week, we have the latest recording by a Canadian artist has had career marked by versatility, including stints as a singer-songwriter, producer, session musician, and member of a roots rock band. Colin Linden's new recording is called Easin' Back to Tennessee.
Forty-five year old Colin Linden is probably best known south of the Canadian border as a producer, having produced over 60 albums during his career, including recordings by Bruce Cockburn, Sue Foley, Colin James and Ray Bonneville. His productions have won numerous Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy. He also maintains an active career as a solo artist. Easin' Back to Tennessee is his tenth solo album, though not all have been released in the US. He is also part of a band called Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, which just released a CD, and which is apparently doing quite well north of the border. Throughout his career, blues and roots music have never been far from Linden's musical sensibility. The new CD puts him squarely in a style that basically inspired him to become a musician in the first place, and which he has been playing largely for himself over the years, acoustic country blues, in the tradition of Son House, Charley Patton and Blind Blake. He writes that he had been playing this style of music since he was eleven, when he had a meeting with Howlin' Wolf, who told him to listen to the people Wolf had been listing to. He did, and says he has been playing the music for over 30 years now. But until now, he felt he might not be ready to put himself on the line with the traditional style. He said that he first started considering doing a CD in this style about 15 years ago, and in the intervening years, has included a track or two like that on some of his own recordings. But this is his first release plunging full-bore into the traditional country style of blues, with acoustic instrumentation, and several pieces performed solo. He said he wanted to wait until he felt he had thoroughly absorbed the music. In his words, "I wanted to be old enough to be able to make a recording that was genuine, not me trying to copy the greats."
The CD's mix is mostly traditional tunes, but there are some original pieces that fit right in with the old songs. Linden's backing band, consists of two gentlemen who have spent time in Tom Waits' band, bassist Larry Taylor, who also played in Canned Heat, and drummer Stephen Hodges. But there are also several solo tracks, in this CD that was made over a period of time in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Nashville, where Linden is currently based.
The material ranges in sound from way down in the swamp, to almost Gospel. Linden's guitar work is, as usual, is very fine, mixing virtuosity with a feeling for the traditions and the willingness to keep it simple when appropriate.
Canadian guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer Colin Linden has gone back to his musical roots on his new tenth CD Easin' Back to Tennessee. It's the music that has inspired him since his youth, but which he previously felt he might not be ready to do on his own, without sounding imitative. He accomplishes his goal on the new CD, embodying the country and rural blues traditions while maintaining his own identity. His mixture of traditional songs and original pieces which sound very old, maintains a pleasingly true and unpretentious sound. The sparse instrumentation, sometimes just Linden and his guitar, underscores the commitment to the spirit and authenticity of the music.
For a sonic grade, though, the CD gets about a "C" from me. There is some apparently intentional distortion on the vocals and frequently on the guitar, and the overall sound is badly over-compressed, giving the CD an inappropriate "in your face" quality. That really undermines the clarity as well, yielding a sometimes muddy quality. As an experienced producer, Linden should have done better than that. Trying to be authentic with the music does not mean one has to emulate the bad sound of the early recordings.
While there is an active revival of the blues, there are not many performers emphasizing the rural country blues style. Colin Linden does a great job in absorbing and re-channeling the music. |
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HERMES CONSOLIDATED LLC v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
United States Court of Appeals,District of Columbia Circuit.
HERMES CONSOLIDATED, LLC, Doing Business as Wyoming Refining Company, Petitioner v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.
No. 14–1016.
Decided: June 02, 2015
Before GARLAND, Chief Judge, and TATEL and SRINIVASAN, Circuit Judges. Eric D. Miller argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were LeAnn Johnson Koch and William Pedersen. Justin D. Heminger, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Sam Hirsch, Acting Assistant Attorney General.
The Environmental Protection Agency administers a renewable fuels program under which oil refineries must satisfy annual obligations concerning production of renewable fuels. Petitioner Wyoming Refining Company operates an oil refinery located in Newcastle, Wyoming. WRC is subject to EPA's renewable fuels program, but obtained an exemption through 2012. WRC unsuccessfully petitioned EPA for an extension of its exemption through 2014. The company now seeks review of EPA's denial.
We reject WRC's various challenges other than those identifying two mathematical errors in EPA's independent analysis of WRC's financial data. EPA concedes those errors, and we are unable to conclude that EPA would have reached the same decision absent its mistakes. We therefore vacate EPA's decision and remand to allow the agency to reevaluate WRC's petition using the correct figures.
In 2005, Congress amended the Clean Air Act to encourage increased use of renewable fuels in the United States. As part of that statutory scheme, Congress prescribed target volumes of renewable fuels for use in each year through 2022. In 2015, for example, the statute calls for consumption of 20.5 billion gallons of renewable fuels. 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o)(2)(B)(i)(I). The statute vests EPA with authority to develop a renewable fuels program to secure satisfaction of the annual benchmarks. Id. § 7545(o)(2)(A)(i).
The statute calls for the Energy Information annually to estimate the total amount of transportation fuel expected to be sold in the United States in the upcoming year. Id. § 7545(o)(3)(A). EPA then divides the renewable-fuels benchmark set out in the statute by the overall fuel estimate provided by DOE, yielding a "volume percentage" requirement for the year. For example, if DOE projects the use of 100 billion gallons of fuel in a year for which the statute requires the use of 20 billion gallons of renewable fuels, the "volume percentage" for that year would be 20%. Obligated parties under the regulations—namely, refineries and importers of fuel—must demonstrate that they meet a pro-rata share of the overarching renewable fuels volume obligations based on that "volume percentage." See 40 C.F.R. § 80.1406(a). Under a volume percentage of 20%, for example, an obligated party producing 100,000 gallons of fuel in a year would have a renewable fuels volume obligation of 20,000 gallons.
Obligated parties, however, are not necessarily required to produce and blend renewable fuels themselves. Instead, they demonstrate compliance through a system of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs). Each gallon of renewable fuel produced for use in the United States generates its own RIN. Id. § 80.1426(a). RINs attach to the physical volume of the renewable fuel, but become "separated" from renewable fuel batches upon blending of the renewable fuel into conventional fuel. Id. §§ 80.1426(e), 80.1429(b). After blending, RINs may either be retained by the blending party or sold to other obligated parties. Id. §§ 80.1427(a)(6), 80.1451. As a result, parties who purchase an adequate number of RINs can comply with their renewable fuels obligations without producing or blending renewable fuels themselves. Each year, obligated parties must to submit to EPA a list of RINs in fulfillment of their renewable fuels obligations. A RIN is retired upon submission to EPA. See id. § 80.1427(a)(1).
The mechanics of the RIN system mean that obligated parties incapable of blending must rely disproportionately on the RIN market. Because small refineries generally have more limited blending capacity than larger refineries, they often need to acquire a large number of RINs from the market in order to meet their annual obligations. Congress, aware that small refineries would face greater difficulty complying with the renewable fuels requirements, created a three-tiered system of exemptions to afford small refineries a bridge to compliance.
First, the statute granted all small refineries (defined as refineries with crude oil throughput averaging 75,000 barrels or less per day) an exemption from the renewable fuels program through 2011. 42 U.S.C § 7545(o)(9)(A)(i), (o)(1)(K). That blanket exemption gave small refineries time to develop compliance strategies and increase blending capacity. Second, the statute directed DOE to conduct a study "to determine whether compliance ․ would impose a disproportionate economic hardship on small refineries." Id. § 7545(o)(9)(A)(ii)(I). If DOE determined that any small refinery "would be subject to a disproportionate economic hardship if required to comply with" the renewable fuels program, EPA was required to extend the exemption for that refinery "for a period of not less than 2 additional years." Id. § 7545(o)(9)(A)(ii)(II). Third, the statute enables a small refinery to initiate an inquiry into disproportionate economic hardship at any time by "petition [ing] the [EPA] Administrator for an extension of the exemption ․ for the reason of disproportionate economic hardship." Id. § 7545(o)(9)(B)(i). When evaluating a petition for an extension, EPA must consult with DOE and consider the DOE study required by § 7545(o)(9)(A)(ii)(I), as well as "other economic factors." Id. § 7545(o)(9)(B)(ii).
In 2011, DOE completed the 2011 Small Refinery Exemption Study (the 2011 Study) required by § 7545(o)(9)(A)(ii)(I). DOE concluded that a showing of disproportionate economic hardship "must encompass two broad components: a high cost of compliance relative to the industry average, and an effect sufficient to cause a significant impairment of the refinery operations." J.A. 26. The 2011 Study also developed a scoring methodology to determine whether a small refinery satisfies those standards. That methodology assigns a score to twelve metrics, which are then used to produce two index scores: a disproportionate impacts index and a viability index. The disproportionate impacts index measures the structural impacts a small refinery would likely face in achieving compliance, while the viability index assesses how compliance would affect the refinery's ability to remain competitive and profitable. If a small refinery receives a score greater than 1 on both indices, it faces disproportionate economic hardship under DOE's standard.
Applying that methodology in 2011, DOE concluded that fourteen small refineries—including WRC—faced disproportionate economic hardship. DOE directed EPA to extend the exemption for two additional years (from 2010 to 2012) for those fourteen refineries pursuant to § 7545(o)(9)(A)(II).
Up through 2012, RINs sold at low prices reflecting the cost of corn ethanol (the most widely used renewable fuel) relative to that of conventional fuel. But beginning in 2013, the nature of the ethanol RIN market changed due to a so-called "ethanol blendwall" or "E10 blendwall." Conventional engines can handle only a certain percentage (about 10%) of ethanol in fuel. In 2013, the statutory renewable fuels volume requirements exceeded the amount of ethanol that the transportation market could absorb. Because of the ethanol blendwall, RIN prices increased in 2013 and began to fluctuate widely.
WRC is a small refinery that processes about 14,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Its output places it 117th in size out of the 132 refineries in the United States. In 2013, WRC's blending capacity enabled it to satisfy about one-third of its RIN requirements through in-house blending. The company thus primarily relies on the RIN market to achieve compliance. Before 2011, WRC qualified for the blanket small refinery exemption and was not required to comply with the renewable fuels program. WRC then qualified for a two year extension of its exemption pursuant to the 2011 DOE Study, deferring its compliance obligations to 2013.
In August 2013, WRC filed an economic hardship petition under 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o)(9)(B), requesting that EPA extend WRC's hardship exemption for another two years (2013 and 2014). WRC emphasized the financial stress caused by the skyrocketing price of RINs. Pursuant to the statutory directive requiring EPA to "consult" with DOE in evaluating hardship petitions, id. § 7545(o)(9)(B)(ii), EPA submitted WRC's data to DOE and asked DOE to evaluate whether WRC should receive an extension. Applying the methodology established in the 2011 Study, DOE concluded that WRC scored higher than 1 on the disproportionate impacts index but less than 1 on the viability index. Because the viability index fell below the threshold of 1, DOE declined to recommend that EPA extend WRC's exemption.
On January 31, 2013, EPA issued a decision denying WRC's request for extension of its hardship exemption. After setting forth DOE's method for reviewing hardship petitions, EPA explained that it would "consider all information submitted by a petitioner" but that "DOE's evaluation of [WRC's] survey [ ] [would be] the primary factor in EPA's determination." J.A. 322. "DOE has expertise in evaluating economic conditions at U.S. refineries," EPA observed, "and DOE used its expertise to develop a survey form and assessment process to identify when disproportionate economic hardship exists in the context of the renewable fuel standard program." Id. EPA therefore would "accord considerable deference to DOE's analysis of disproportionate economic hardship in deciding whether or not to grant a petition for extension." Id. After summarizing the data submitted by WRC, EPA incorporated DOE's recommendation into its decision, observing that "DOE's evaluation indicates that the disproportionate impacts index ․ exceeds the hardship threshold, but the viability index ․ does not." J.A. 329–31. EPA then performed a "qualitative[ ]" review to "ascertain if the information [submitted by WRC] is consistent with the finding of no disproportionate economic hardship." J.A. 331. Concluding that WRC's financial data was "indeed consistent with that finding," EPA denied the petition. Id. WRC now petitions this court for review of EPA's decision.
We first address WRC's challenge to EPA's interpretation of the statutory term "disproportionate economic hardship." 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o)(9)(B). EPA construed that term in conformity with DOE's scoring indices, and it therefore required WRC to show that compliance both would impose disproportionate economic effects and would pose some threat to the viability of the refinery. WRC contends that the statute requires EPA "to grant exemptions when a small refinery faces disproportionate economic hardship—that is, a hardship that is out of proportion to that faced by larger refineries." Pet'r's Br. 24. Consideration of a viability index, WRC argues, is inconsistent with that statutory mandate. We disagree.
We consider WRC's statutory argument under the two-step Chevron framework. Under the first step, if "Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue," the agency "must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress ." Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842–43, 104 S.Ct. 2778, 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984). WRC contends that EPA's reliance on a viability index is invalid at Chevron step one because it contradicts the plain language of § 7545(o)(9)(B).
The statute, however, contains no definition of the term "disproportionate economic hardship." See 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o)(1). Congress instead gave EPA general guidance on the evaluation of economic hardship petitions under § 7545(o)(9)(B). In particular, Congress required EPA to consult with DOE and to "consider the findings of the [2011 Study] and other economic factors" when evaluating petitions. Id. § 7545(o)(9)(B)(ii). The statute gives no further instruction and identifies no particular economic factors or metrics to be considered. That sort of statutory silence about the particular factors that an agency must consider conveys "nothing more than a refusal to tie the agency's hands." Monroe Energy, LLC v. EPA, 750 F.3d 909, 915 (D.C.Cir.2014). As long as EPA consults with DOE and considers the 2011 Study and "other economic factors," EPA retains substantial discretion to decide how to evaluate hardship petitions. We therefore reject WRC's Chevron step-one challenge.
Alternatively, WRC contends that EPA's reliance on a viability index should be rejected at the second step of the Chevron framework. At Chevron step two, we must satisfy ourselves that EPA's method of evaluating "disproportionate economic hardship" is "based on a permissible construction of the statute." Chevron, 467 U.S. at 843. We conclude that it is.
EPA's decision to incorporate the 2011 Study's methodology into its evaluation—including the viability index—is entirely reasonable. The statute, as noted, requires EPA to consult with DOE and "consider the findings of the [2011 Study] and other economic factors" in evaluating an economic hardship petition. 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o)(9)(B)(ii). EPA interpreted the term "disproportionate economic hardship" in conformity with the 2011 Study because "[t]he basis for any grant of an exemption extension by EPA in response to an individual petition is the same as the basis of evaluation in the [2011 Study]—disproportionate economic hardship." J.A. 322. EPA's rationale accords with the well-established presumption that "a given term is used to mean the same thing throughout a statute." Mohamad v. Palestinian Auth., –––U.S. ––––, ––––, 132 S.Ct. 1702, 1708, 182 L.Ed.2d 720 (2012).
Even considered on its own terms, EPA's interpretation of the phrase "disproportionate economic hardship" is wholly reasonable. DOE concluded, and EPA agreed, that the relative costs of compliance alone cannot demonstrate economic hardship because all refineries face a direct cost associated with participation in the program. Of course, some refineries will face higher costs than others, but whether those costs impose disproportionate hardship on a given refinery presents a different question. DOE determined that the best way to measure "hardship" entailed examining the impact of compliance costs on a refinery's ability to maintain profitability and competitiveness—i.e., viability—in the long term. EPA adopted DOE's understanding, and that choice lies well within the agency's discretion.
WRC next contends that we should vacate EPA's decision because DOE changed its scoring practice without adequate notice or explanation. We are unpersuaded.
Under DOE's methodology for evaluating economic hardship petitions, a refinery must score above 1 on both the viability index and the disproportionate impacts index in order to demonstrate "disproportionate economic hardship." The viability index in turn reflects three component scores. Those scores measure: (i) whether compliance costs would eliminate efficiency gains to the refinery; (ii) whether individual special events would adversely affect the refinery; and (iii) whether compliance costs would likely lead to shutdown of the refinery. The three scores are added together and divided by 6 to produce a final viability index value. Thus, a score of 10 on any one component would secure a score exceeding 1 on the viability index.
In 2011, DOE awarded one of only two scores—0 (no impact) or 10 (impact)—on the first component metric (the one concerning efficiency gains). For that year, DOE gave WRC a score of 10 on that metric, guaranteeing a viability score of greater than 1 and ultimately leading to WRC's receipt of a hardship exemption. When evaluating WRC's 2013 petition, however, DOE assigned WRC a score of 5 (moderate impact) for the efficiency-gains metric and a 0 on the other two metrics, resulting in a viability index value of less than 1. In a footnote, EPA explained that DOE "already used intermediate scores of 5 in some ․ metrics, and believes it is also appropriate to use intermediate scores [for the efficiency-gains metric] to more accurately characterize the impacts of compliance costs." J.A. 321. WRC raises both substantive and procedural challenges to EPA's reliance in 2013 on an intermediate score for the efficiency-gains metric.
As to substance, WRC contends that the addition of an intermediate score was arbitrary and capricious because there was no explanation for the change in scoring practice. We disagree. Judicial review of a "change in agency policy is no stricter than our review of an initial agency action." White Stallion Energy Ctr. LLC v. EPA, 748 F.3d 1222, 1235 (D.C.Cir.2014) (citing FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., 556 U.S. 502, 514–16, 129 S.Ct. 1800, 173 L.Ed.2d 738 (2009)). An agency must "provide reasoned explanation for its action," which normally requires "that it display awareness that it is changing position." Fox Television, 556 U.S. at 515 (emphasis omitted). Here, EPA acknowledged the change and explained that DOE added an "intermediate score[ ]" in order to "more accurately characterize the impacts of compliance costs ․ on a refinery." J.A. 321 n. 4. WRC contends that EPA provided a description of the change rather than an explanation of it. But a change is not invalid merely because it is readily explained. The change at issue here fits in that category: as EPA explained, the addition of an intermediate score to the efficiency-gains metric allows for more nuanced and accurate characterization of the impact of compliance costs. That is a reasonable explanation for the change.
WRC's procedural challenge asserts that DOE's decision to use an intermediate score (and EPA's adoption of that decision) required notice and comment rulemaking. That argument turns on WRC's contention that the addition of an intermediate score for the efficiency-gains metric fundamentally altered the operation of the scoring matrix. According to WRC, under the preexisting system, any impact on efficiency, no matter how insubstantial, would produce a score of 10 on the efficiency-gains metric (which, in turn, would result in a viability index exceeding 1). Whereas any impact on efficiency once qualified WRC for a hardship exemption, WRC claims, it must now demonstrate significant hardship. Consequently, WRC asserts that the addition of the intermediate score did not merely round out the existing scoring method, but instead worked a substantive change of a kind requiring notice and comment.
The 2011 Study belies WRC's understanding of the old system. The efficiency-gains metric was never understood to require a score of 10 in the event of any impact on efficiency, regardless of its magnitude. According to the 2011 Study, the efficiency-gains metric assesses whether "the totality of factors ․ would reduce the profitability of the firm enough to impair future efficiency improvements." J.A. 59 (emphasis added). If a refinery were to face "significant constraints on efficiency improvements," it might be placed "at risk" even though reductions in profitability would not lead to "immediate shutdown." Id. The 2011 Study thus indicates that the efficiency-gains metric aimed to protect against "significant" effects on efficiency, a position entirely consistent with DOE's decision to use an intermediate score to denote "moderate impact" in its 2013 evaluation. The 2011 Study also recognized that "[r]efineries that receive a[n] extension of their exemption" could take steps to "reduc[e] the impact" of future compliance costs. Id. As a result, "refineries that currently score high" on the efficiency-gains metric would "likely see a reduction in the scoring of this category in the future." Id. DOE's award of an intermediate score when evaluating 2013 petitions therefore was fully consistent with the 2011 Study. It follows that DOE did not substantively change the efficiency-gains metric in the way WRC suggests.
Even assuming that DOE's addition of an intermediate score amounted to a substantive modification, WRC points us to no authority suggesting that the decision to make available a more refined score within an already-existing metric requires notice-and-comment procedures. We see no basis for creating such a rule here. Nothing in § 7545(o)(9)(B) compelled DOE to apply the exact same methodology—in every particular—that it had used in 2011. Instead, the statute merely called for EPA to consult with DOE and to "consider" the results of the 2011 Study when evaluating individual hardship petitions. 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o)(9)(B)(ii). EPA asked DOE to examine WRC's petition, and both EPA and DOE certainly "considered" the 2011 Study in doing so. Congress placed no limits on how DOE should provide its consultation to EPA under § 7545(o)(9)(B)(ii), and DOE's consultation did not purport to establish rights or obligations of WRC. As a result, we find no reason to conclude that DOE was obligated to engage in notice-and-comment procedures before adding a finer gradation within a preexisting scoring range.
We next consider WRC's contention that EPA erroneously considered (or failed to consider) various economic factors when reviewing WRC's petition. While § 7545(o)(9)(B) calls for EPA to consider "other economic factors" in evaluating hardship petitions, the statute contains no requirement to consider any particular factors. "In the absence of any express or implied statutory directive to consider particular factors," EPA retains broad discretion to choose which "economic factors" it will (and will not) consider. Monroe Energy, 750 F.3d at 915. EPA acted within its discretion here.
WRC first asserts that EPA failed adequately to consider the high cost of purchasing RINs relative to producing them by blending. WRC's argument amounts to a substantive disagreement with the manner in which EPA chose to account for RIN costs in its review. In particular, WRC disagrees with the RIN price estimates EPA used in evaluating WRC's petition. We see no inadequacy in EPA's consideration of the cost of purchasing RINs. To be sure, EPA declined to rely on WRC's initial RIN estimates; but that was because WRC averaged only two months of RIN prices to produce an "average" substantially exceeding normal RIN prices. EPA instead reasonably relied on an updated estimate submitted by WRC in October, 2013. In reaching its final decision, moreover, EPA noted that "RIN prices have declined significantly" since WRC submitted its initial hardship petition and projected that RIN prices would continue to decrease. J.A. 328 n. 13. EPA therefore adequately considered the cost of purchasing RINs in its decision.
In EPA's independent evaluation of WRC's financial data, the agency observed that "WRC perceived that sufficient funds were available in 2012 for it to make a substantial discretionary dividend payment." J.A. 332. The funds used to pay those discretionary dividends, EPA reasoned, "could have been used to pay for [compliance] projects." J.A. 331. WRC argues that discretionary dividends paid in 2012 have "little relevance to whether [WRC] would face a disproportionate economic hardship from regulatory compliance in 2013." Pet'r's Br. 43. And even if those dividend payments were relevant, WRC contends it should not have been faulted for failing to prepare for unforeseeable increases in RIN prices. We disagree.
Although it was exempt from the renewable fuels program in 2012, WRC remained an obligated party covered by the statute. See 40 C.F.R. § 80.1406(a). And EPA reasonably expected WRC to make preparations to comply with its 2013 obligations during the company's five-year exemption period. The discretionary dividend payment indicated that WRC elected to distribute profits to its owners rather than use profits to prepare for approaching compliance obligations. Allowing small refineries to perpetuate that manner of self-inflicted hardship would conflict with the terms of the statute, which contemplate a "[t]emporary exemption" for small refineries with an eye toward eventual compliance with the renewable fuels program for all refineries. 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o)(9)(A) (emphasis added). EPA reasonably considered the compliance efforts made (and not made) during WRC's five-year exemption in evaluating WRC's petition for a further extension of its exemption.
WRC next claims that EPA erred in assessing the refinery's cash flow by looking to WRC's net income rather than its adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA). WRC further contends that "EPA should have adjusted EBITDA to account for the unavoidable cash outlays of capital expenditures, loan principal repayments, and interest payments." Pet'r's Br. 5152. But EPA did consider EBITDA (in addition to net income) in evaluating WRC's finances. For instance, the agency noted that WRC "will again be profitable in 2013," citing both net income and EBITDA. J.A. 332. And while WRC may believe that an adjusted EBITDA would provide a better measure of cash flow, it cannot succeed in its challenge unless it demonstrates that EPA's measure was unreasonable. As WRC itself acknowledged in correspondence with EPA, however, "EBITDA ․ is the standard basis for evaluating the economic health of a refining company." J .A. 138; see Pet'r's Br. 51. EPA therefore acted reasonably when it chose to consider unadjusted EBITDA in evaluating WRC's petition.
While most refineries are corporations, WRC is an LLC and is therefore a pass-through entity for tax purposes. WRC contends that EPA should have accounted for income taxes paid by the unit holders of WRC's holding company. Failure to account for income taxes paid by unit holders, WRC argues, caused EPA to overstate WRC's net income relative to other refineries. But the pertinent statutory text requires EPA to consider whether the small refinery itself faces disproportionate economic hardship. See 42 U.S.C. § 7545(o)(9)(A)-(B). In that light, it was reasonable for EPA to confine its evaluation to the finances of the refinery without considering taxes paid by third parties.
WRC finally challenges EPA's decision based on two miscalculations in EPA's independent analysis of WRC's financial data. EPA concedes the two errors, but argues that we should nevertheless deny WRC's petition because the errors were harmless. This court will affirm an agency's decision despite errors when "it is clear that ․ the agency would have reached the same ultimate result" had the errors not been made. Salt River Project Agric. Improvement & Power Dist. v. United States, 762 F.2d 1053, 1061 n. 8 (D.C.Cir.1985). Although WRC bears the burden of establishing that the errors were prejudicial, that is not "a particularly onerous requirement." Jicarilla Apache Nation v. U.S. Dep't of Interior, 613 F.3d 1112, 1121 (D.C.Cir.2010). "Often the circumstances of the case will make clear to the appellate judge" that an error was prejudicial, "and nothing further need be said." Shinseki v. Sanders, 556 U.S. 396, 410, 129 S.Ct. 1696, 173 L.Ed.2d 532 (2009). Here, because the conceded errors significantly alter important figures in EPA's independent analysis of WRC's financial data, we cannot conclude with sufficient certainty that the agency would have made the same decision absent its errors.
While DOE's recommendation serves as the "primary" factor in EPA's determination, J.A. 322, EPA also conducted an independent, "qualitative" review of WRC's financial data, J.A. 331. That independent review aimed to determine whether WRC's financial data supported a finding of no disproportionate economic hardship. EPA concluded that the information submitted by WRC was "consistent" with such a finding. J.A. 331. Two key factors EPA considered in reaching that conclusion were (i) that WRC's projected 2013 net income was "significantly greater" than its projected RIN costs, and (ii) that WRC's net refining margins compared favorably to those of other refineries that petitioned for a hardship exemption. J.A. 331–32. EPA now concedes it made substantial mathematical errors in calculating both WRC's projected 2013 net income and its net refining margins.
With regard to the first error, EPA sought to exclude "hedge impacts" (here, gains and losses realized from investment positions in crude oil) from the company's net income. As WRC points out, however, EPA made a computational error when it added, rather than subtracted, WRC's hedge impacts in calculating net income excluding hedges. EPA concluded that compliance would not "significantly impact" WRC's viability because "WRC projected ․ that they will have a [2013] net income ․ significantly greater than [the] projected 2013 purchased RIN cost." J.A. 331 (emphasis added). EPA now concedes that it accidentally overstated WRC's projected 2013 net income, and that the correct net income figure was less than half of the figure EPA relied on in its decision. EPA contends that we can nonetheless sustain its decision because, even using the correct figure, the projections indicated that WRC would be profitable in 2013. But given that EPA's error resulted in a substantial overstatement of net income, we are unable to conclude with adequate certainty that EPA still would have regarded WRC's net income as "significantly greater" than projected RIN costs.
EPA also urges us to deem its error harmless because the error did not infect DOE's recommendation to EPA. We cannot accept that argument. It is uncontested that EPA retained ultimate and independent authority to grant or deny economic hardship petitions under § 7545(o)(9)(B). According to EPA's decision, its independent analysis aimed to determine whether "the information submitted by WRC" was "consistent with the finding of no disproportionate economic impact." J.A. 331. Had EPA concluded that WRC's financial information was inconsistent with that finding, it presumably would have granted WRC's petition notwithstanding DOE's recommendation. Although EPA considered several factors in the course of concluding that WRC's information was "indeed consistent" with DOE's recommendation, id., "[w]hat weight [EPA] gave to those [factors] is impossible to discern." PDK Labs. Inc. v. DEA, 362 F.3d 786, 799 (D.C.Cir.2004). Accordingly, we cannot conclude that EPA "would have reached the same ultimate result" had it correctly calculated WRC's projected 2013 net income. Salt River Project, 762 F.2d at 1061 n. 8.
EPA also acknowledges a second error in its analysis. As EPA explains, it "should have accounted for realized hedge impacts in determining [WRC's] net refining margins and in comparing its average refining margin[s] to those of other small refineries." Resp't Br. at 68. As a result of that second error, EPA significantly overstated WRC's average net refining margin per barrel for 2012 and 2013. In light of our conclusion that EPA's first error cannot be considered harmless, we have no occasion to apply harmless-error analysis to EPA's second error: the agency must redo its analysis in any event based on the first error. In doing so, EPA presumably would also correct the second error by incorporating correct net refining margins.
For the foregoing reasons, we vacate EPA's decision and remand for further consideration consistent with this opinion.
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SRINIVASAN. |
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It is still uncertain when they start filming; Some reports speak of this spring, and others of a shooting along this year. In between, we remember that Natalie also will shoot "Annihilation", with Alex Garland.
I think Stephen King already understands what makes a good movie, and JGAG with Natalie in the lead role will certainly be a big success ..
I went to see Jane Got a Gun despite some of the bad reviews and very glad I did. Great, affecting, movie for me about how horribly women were treated out west not so long ago. Ridiculous and disgusting in my mind. If you were not a whore you had to be somebody's wife for protection from all the male animals that populated the west at that time. I think Natalie is a great actress so I knew at least she would be good. I looked on line to see more about the story itself but could find nothing. It was not a book first, apparently. Who wrote the screenplay? Was it a woman? I love westerns. They are a lost art as far as I can see. Such a shame…This one was so unique because not much has ever been said about the role of a strong woman out west in that period. I knew she had it rough but this movie takes it one step farther. If I hadn't kown it was Ewen McGregor I would not have recognized him as the really good but really awful villian. Kudos to Natalie. This movie needs a closer examination by the mostly male critics.
Im so exiting see movie I really like this actor so I think its will be good movie. |
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What happens to someone accused of drug possession?
On behalf of Hindman & Lanzon on Saturday, December 22, 2018.
The state of Tennessee has stiff laws concerning the illegal possession of drugs, which could be anything from marijuana or heroin to the synthetic drugs we hear about so frequently in newscasts.
What penalties do Tennessee's repeat DUI offenders face?
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Comet-like debris trail spotted after spacecraft crashes into asteroid
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Published 1:18 PM EDT, Tue October 4, 2022
'Streaks of rocks and debris': New image captures DART asteroid crash
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At first glance, a new image captured by a telescope in Chile looks like a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky, followed by a long, glowing tail. Instead, it's the debris plume created when NASA's DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos.
Two days after the intentional impact on September 26, a US team of astronomers observed the aftermath remotely using the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope, or SOAR, at the National Science Foundation NOIRLab's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
They spied a debris trail stretching more than 6,213 miles (10,000 kilometers) from the point of impact on Dimorphos. Like the tail of a comet, the dust trail is being pushed away from Dimorphos by the sun's radiation pressure.
"It is amazing how clearly we were able to capture the structure and extent of the aftermath in the days following the impact," said astronomer Teddy Kareta at Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
The SOAR telescope image shows a comet-like trail of debris from Dimorphos after the collision.
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Space telescopes like Hubble and Webb also followed the impact and have shared their first views of what the collision looked like across different wavelengths of light.
And LICIACube, an Italian CubeSat that followed behind the DART mission, has begun to send back images taken from its stunning perspective just a short distance away when the impact occurred.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test deliberately crashed into Dimorphos, an asteroid moonlet orbiting the larger space rock Didymos, to see whether a spacecraft can change the motion of a celestial body in space.
While neither asteroid poses a threat to Earth, the mission was the first test of this deflection technology to see whether it's viable as a mode of planetary defense, in case a space rock is found to be on a path to impact our planet.
Post-impact observations of the double asteroid system will shed more light on the surface of Dimorphos, which had never been seen until the DART event.
This image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument shows Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos, about 4 hours after NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) made impact. A tight, compact core and plumes of material appearing as wisps streaming away from the center of where the impact took place, are visible in the image. Those sharp points are Webb's distinctive eight diffraction spikes, an artifact of the telescope's structure. These observations, when combined with data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, will allow scientists to gain knowledge about the nature of the surface of Dimorphos, how much material was ejected by the collision, and how fast it was ejected. In the coming months, scientists will use Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) to observe Dimorphos further. Spectroscopic data will also provide researchers with insight into the asteroid's chemical composition. The observations shown here were conducted in the filter F070W (0.7 microns) and assigned the color red. NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center.
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Webb, Hubble space telescopes share images of DART slamming into an asteroid
These observations also can help scientists assess how much material was blasted away from Dimorphos, the size of that debris and how quickly it escaped into space.
While the spacecraft was successful in colliding with the asteroid, it will take up to two months for ground-based telescopes to confirm whether DART successfully altered Dimorphos' motion.
"Now begins the next phase of work for the DART team as they analyze their data and observations by our team and other observers around the world who shared in studying this exciting event," said astronomer Matthew Knight at the US Naval Academy. |
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If you read this blog regularly, then you already know about my kale obsession. I unapologetically eat it nearly every day, in salads, in soups, in tacos – even in pot pies! I love all forms of it: beautiful deep blue-green Lacinto kale, Russian red kale, and the bright green (and rather chewy) curly kale that appears in salads on nearly every restaurant menu these days. But I recently discovered its delicate little sister, baby kale, and I'm hooked.
Roughly the size of baby arugula (though with less bite), you can buy it in 5-ounce bags or clamshells at the grocery, which I love to keep on hand for salads, wraps, green smoothies, or to throw into an omelet or frittata. It's super-easy to use when you're in a rush: no washing or chopping needed, and–given it's already so tender–there's no need to "massage" the leaves as you do with other forms of kale. (I just learned this trick the other day. Weird, but true!). Not only is it delicious and easy to use, but it packs a serious nutritional punch. One cup has just 33 calories, and contains well over a day's worth of Vitamins A, C, and K! Not bad for a cup of greens.
Here are three of my favorite ways to prepare baby kale. Give these simple recipes a try – each one takes less than 15 minutes to prepare. Definitely my kind of healthy! |
As I try to finish up writing out my reflections on the Coursera course experience so far (previous post was about the "Course Criteria" as defined by Coursera itself), I have to write about the plagiarism, depressing though it may be. I've written about it over at Google+ (and in that way I learned about plagiarism problems over at the Internet History Coursera course also, so it's not just our course), but I see I haven't posted anything here. It's a complex topic; I'll write out here as much as I can stand... if I get too depressed, I'll just have to stop, ha ha.
I first became aware of the plagiarism problem on Tuesday of Week 2, when the Week 2 essays were released for peer review. Before I had even started to read any essays, I saw several discussion threads going at the discussion board about plagiarism. Boy, was that depressing! Also depressing: people were sharing links to some really dreadful online plagiarism checkers and urging "everybody" to use them. Then, it also surfaced that there had been plagiarism in Week 1, also discussed at the discussion board. I had missed those threads, but no surprise there: in the total chaos of the discussion board, it's very easy to miss something, even if it is a topic that would be of interest.
I then started reading the essays assigned to me for review; the first essays I read were definitely better than the first week in terms of the writing, but then I hit a patch of essays written in such poor English as to be almost incomprehensible... and then I hit an essay that was clearly plagiarized. There was an incomprehensible paragraph about the dormouse as a symbol of the proletariat. Well, that was easy to Google and instantly led me to the article that the student had copied, massaged, and not cited. It was a perfect example of "patchwork plagiarism," where the student had mechanically and mindlessly transformed the text (replacing every nth word with a synonym, reversing the order of phrases in a sentence, etc.) in order to defeat plagiarism detection software like Turnitin, but which was still patently plagiarism. A lot like, uh, what lost Fareed Zakaria his job this week (see the NYTimes article for a picture-perfect example of patchwork plagiarism in one of Zakaria's articles... talk about depressing!).
Then I went back to the discussion board and saw it positively roiling with people expressing strong views all over the spectrum, including quite a few people who said that since this was a free course and not for credit, the plagiarism did not matter. I also saw quite a few people who certainly seemed to be mis-using the plagiarism detection software without a clear understanding of just what plagiarism is and how to document it. Well, I figured that there would be some kind of email from the instructor and/or from the Coursera staff the next day to let us know what to do. At a minimum, I was expecting some helpful information about plagiarism to show up at the class website (links perhaps to online material at the University of Michigan?), a strong recommendation (I hoped anyway) that students not use plagiarism detection software (both because it is reckless and also violates the rights of the authors, who did not give you permission to feed their writing into the gaping maw of these commercial databases), and also specific information about what we should do if we found an essay that contained plagiarism (since we are not able to give an essay a zero and/or flag it as inappropriate; we can only give the minimum grade of 1-1).
But... nothing. An email went out within 24 hours to the students of the Internet History course, so I expected that maybe after that email went out, we would get something similar in a day or two. Nope, nothing. Even worse: we got a boilerplate email from the "teaching assistant" for the course that said "We're now in unit 03! I hope you enjoyed the lectures from Unit 02 as well as the essays and peer responses. As always, the forums are active with wonderful discussion and questions and we thank you for that. Based off these discussions on the forums, Professor Rabkin has made a supplementary video for the Alice novels, which we hope you will take a look at. It can be found in Video Lectures, under the Unit Two header. Thank you again all your hard work and please enjoy the new video!"
I'm glad that Professor Rabkin shared his thoughts about metaphors and mathematics in the supplementary video... but where is the response to the plagiarism questions? The discussion continues to roil the discussion board because people feel very strongly about it - and we have now gotten to hear from people falsely accused of plagiarism (just as I feared) as a result of people using detection software who don't know how to interpret the results. My favorite: the person who was accused of plagiarism because they posted their essay at their blog, just as I do, and the plagiarism detection software found the match and identified it as plagiarism.
In addition, I have learned about all kinds of other inappropriate material turned in for the essays that needs to be flagged, not just given a 1-1 score. There have been blank essays turned in (no doubt due to technical problems, as people have discussed at the discussion boards - discussions to which there has been no response from Coursera staff), along with essays for the wrong week (people were getting Week 1 Grimm essays turned in for Week 2 Alice), and - here's my personal favorite - SPAM essays. Amazing, isn't it? Someone got an essay that was a promotional review for a book about Cleopatra, and the essay of course contained a link to the online bookstore where the Cleopatra book was available for purchase! People have also reported essays with tell-tale signs of being generated by Google Translate, and some students have freely admitted to using Google Translate at the discussion boards - a complicated question worth discussing in its own right, but suffice to say that if Google Translate has left words in the original language not translated into English (a common enough occurrence), then the essay is certainly not ready for a peer to read and review.
In some ways, this is very familiar to any university instructor (we all have to educate our students about plagiarism and also know how to respond to it, if/when it happens). Some of it is admittedly peculiar to Coursera (peer feedback with zero instructor involvement... as well as the truly bizarre phenomenon of spam essays!). At the discussion board, I shared a link to the assignment about original writing and plagiarism that I require my own students to read, along with a link to a helpful article from our student newspaper that addresses what is (I think) the key issue of patchwork plagiarism, something that really does confuse a large number of students (in my experience anyway). Of course, my post is long lost in the churning chaos of the discussion boards; as often, the most popular post is the first one on the topic... which is the one that recommends to everybody that they use the plagiarism tracking software; it currently has 1500 views.
1. Plagiarism is a violation of the honor code of the class. For that reason alone, it constitutes a problem. If there is an honor code, it needs to mean something. Otherwise, they need to just get rid of the honor code. Clearly, they cannot do that - so, they need a set of procedures in place to deal with alleged violations of the honor code. I'm sure the University of Michigan has procedures in place for its students; I don't recall anything in the Coursera-Michigan contract that addressed this division of labor, but surely under the "Coursera Monetization Model," this would be Coursera's responsibility, not that of the University of Michigan.
2. Plagiarism means that students are not learning. If Coursera is committed to providing a good learning experience for students in the course, then it needs to intervene with a student who is plagiarizing, making sure the student understands what it means to do original work and why that is crucial to the learning experience. This, for me, is actually the most important reason that something has to be done about this - and far better, of course, if something is done proactively, rather than after a student has plagiarized. Now that Coursera knows plagiarism is a potential problem in a course with these types of writing assignments, some kind of plagiarism education needs to take place before the writing assignments begin. In our class, that plagiarism education needs to happen ASAP.
3. Plagiarism violates the conditions of trust on which peer feedback is predicated. If I am asked to give feedback on an essay that is plagiarized, both my time and good will are being wasted. This also applies to other inappropriate essays as well; I need to be able to flag an essay that I think is inappropriate and draw another essay from the pool - and Coursera then needs to figure out how to handle the essays that have been so flagged. On this point, I would have disagreed with the instructions from the Internet History instructor, who urged his students to review the essay completely, in addition to identifying the plagiarism problem - just speaking for myself, I am not prepared to give feedback on an essay until the plagiarism problem has been explained to the student and the student understands the difference between original writing and plagiarism.
5. Plagiarism detection and education cannot be left in the hands of fellow students. I've read outraged discussion board posts from people who are contemplating quitting the class because they were wrongfully accused of plagiarism; I do not blame them. If I were accused of plagiarism with no opportunity for redress, I would not choose to remain in the class. Obviously, the solution to that problem is to have an essay flagged for plagiarism (or as inappropriate for whatever reason) go to Coursera staff for review... but they apparently have not built anything into their model to handle such possibilities.
Okay, yes, there is more to say... including more to say about the good and bad of the peer feedback system for really challenging issues; plagiarism is just one such issue. But, sadly, it really doesn't matter what I say. What matters is what Coursera will say about all this. So far, no guidance of any kind has been shared with the thousands of participants in the class, and the discussion board continues to roil unattended.
As I mentioned over at Google+ earlier today, I'm going to try to take some time this weekend to put down here on virtual paper all my thoughts and experiences with the Coursera course so far (so, for example, I wrote up a long note about video captions earlier today). I start my own classes on Monday and they deserve my full attention. Plus, I am increasingly discouraged about this Coursera class; initially, I thought it would be something fun to do side-by-side with my regular classes, but as the class feels more and more like a chore, very badly hampered by the problems in the design and conduct of the class, I really don't see it having any meaningful connection to my own courses - hence my participation will be drastically curtailed after this weekend. So, in hopes that somehow a participant's thoughts and reflections might (?) matter to the people at Coursera, I'm going to try to get caught up on recording those thoughts either today or tomorrow.
First off, I have to refer everybody to the EXCELLENT blog post by another student in the class here: Coursera Thoughts Part One - here's a brief summary, but I would really urge everyone to read her analysis in detail. Main idea is this: the course syllabus states it is intended for advanced undergraduate students, preferably with some experience in writing about literature, but the students enrolled in the class do not match that target audience; this problem is compounded by the lack of clear criteria for the writing assignments - perhaps explicit criteria would not have been needed in a class of advanced undergrads with writing experience… with the students actually enrolled in the course, however, the criteria need to be made more explicit.
So, following up on what appears to be a HUGE mismatch between the intended audience for the course and the people who are enrolled, I have to ask how this fits into Coursera's model overall. Earlier today I was looking at the Coursera-Michigan contract that got published at the Chronicle of Higher Ed (trying to find out just what is going on with ADA compliance), and I thought I would take a look at what the contract might have to say about the issue of course design and student support.
"Course Criteria" means a rigorously designed Course meeting high academic standards that uses multi-media Content in a coherent, high-production-value presentation (i.e. not just simple lecture capture) to provide the End User opportunities for a rich set of interactions or assessment (whether provided by automatic grading technology or by peer-to-peer interaction activities), resulting in a meaningful learning experience that significantly transcends static content or plain video.
WHOA… Notice that there is no provision here for actual INSTRUCTION… and even less so for REMEDIATION. We have opportunities for "interaction" and "assessment" … but instruction and remediation are conspicuously missing. So, Coursera definitely imagines that blissful world envisioned in the course syllabus: we are all "like" upper-division college students, hopefully literature majors, who are able to educate ourselves independently and already fully in possession of the skills we need both to complete the course assignments and also to effectively evaluate the work of our peers, those other upper-division literature majors who are taking the course with us.
Except… that is not what is happening in the actual course. There are students in the course struggling with the basics of written English (including many non-native speakers); there are students in the course who have been plagiarizing (I suspect because they really are not clear on how to do research that results in original writing) … in short: there are people who need basic instruction in writing and research methods in order to succeed in completing the assigned tasks for the class. In other words: they are not students who have gone through the usual process that leads someone to enroll in an upper-division literature class at the University of Michigan.
Now, I think this democratizing of the course could be a GREAT thing, and there are indeed some easy steps that Coursera and Michigan could take in order to provide these students with at least some of the instruction and remediation they need, simply by turning the course website into something more than a discussion board (right now that is all it is). I'll say more about that in a separate post. For now, though, I have to say that reading this contract helps me understand why Coursera thinks the course website is fine the way it is now. They actually do not envision anything that could conventionally be called "instruction" to happen in this course. I guess I could have reached that conclusion simply by looking at the design of the course, but it was helpful to see that it is also a principle embodied in the language of the contract itself.
Just because a course is massive, does it have to dispense with instruction? Personally, I don't think so at all. But I'll save for a separate post some ideas that I have about that, and you can also see the blog post I referenced above - Coursera Thoughts Part One - for thoughts on that subject from another student in the course.
Meanwhile, though, I have to say that this is a really sad thing for me. I love teaching online and have enjoyed nothing but success and satisfaction from the past ten years I have spent teaching fully online courses. Yet all around me I see a lot of doubt about and even hostility towards online courses, usually because people assume that an online course is one in which the instructor is basically absent. Well, that seems to be the case in the Coursera model, and it is definitely the case in the specific Coursera course I am participating in right now. Does it have to be that way? Obviously not! (Just ask my students.) But it looks like a Coursera course can easily meet the minimum "Course Criteria" without any instructional component. This worries me - a lot.
Update: it looks like Coursera is now taking the video captions seriously; almost all of the videos now posted have captions. Strangely, there is no announcement on the homepage to let us know about that. I found out just by accident. The latest announcement on the homepage as of August 26 is an announcement dated August 14.
As I mentioned in my earlier post about course communication problems, people have been complaining - to no avail - about the lack of video captions for the latest videos. During the first week, when we were reading the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, transcripts were very helpfully supplied for the numerous videos. Then, starting in Week 2 - Alice, there were no transcripts (although for one "extra" video about the Week 2 content, a transcript did appear this morning, oddly enough), and there is no transcript for the first video for Week 3 - Dracula, the one we are supposed to watch before we start reading for Week 3 (reading that people are doing this weekend, presumably).
As a result of the missing transcripts, people have been making requests at the discussion forums - I've seen requests from deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and also from many non-native speakers of English who find the transcripts essential in being able to follow what the professor is saying accurately. I'm someone who would like the transcripts just for sheer convenience; it is faster, easier and more accurate for me to access the information in text form. I really don't have time to listen to all the videos and, just as a general rule, I would prefer to read.
For all University Courses offered to the public under the Coursera Monetization Model whose initial enrollment is above 10,000 End Users, the audio will be proactively captioned within seven days of the time that the Instructor uploads the video onto the Website.
For all University Courses offered to the public under the Coursera Monetization Model whose initial enrollment is fewer than 10,000, the audio will be captioned upon the request of an End User, who has a disability, in a timely manner, as specified below.
For any University Courses under the University Monetization Model or the Registered Students Model for which University requests such captions, at an agreed-upon fee.
For the people who are under the impression that Coursera is some kind of charity because we are not charged a fee for this course, think again: reading through this contract is a great reminder that they are very much a business venture. We are operating, I believe, under the "Coursera Monetization Model" - and I think that our enrollment is surely over 10,000 for this class (even though not all enrolled students are turning in written assignments). So, based on this contract, I would assume that we should be seeing transcripts within one week from the date when the video is uploaded. That does not seem to be the case, though, because the "Alice: Before You Read" video was uploaded on Thursday, August 2, and there is still no transcript for it (and we are now completely done with the Alice material, of course, having moved on to Dracula). Based on what I understand about this contract (don't quote me, though - eegad, lawyer-ese is hard to understand), that means we should have had the "Alice: Before You Read" audio transcript by now.
Worse, though, is that the one-week delay allowed for in the contract is really not feasible for this class. If the "before you read" video is released only on Thursday, and our writing assignment is due on the subsequent Tuesday, five days later, that means deaf students who are dependent on the video captions will not be able to access the "before you read" video before they do the reading and writing assignments for the unit.
One of the reasons I am not interested in developing video materials for my own courses is exactly because of the time-consuming need to supply a transcript - it's faster and easier for me to supply the content to the students in written form which does not have the same accessibility problems. I know that video appeals to a lot of people, of course... and if Coursera is committed to the use of video, as they are, then this question of timely availability of transcripts is a very important issue for them to resolve. Even if they did follow the terms of the contract and supplied the transcripts one week after the video is made available to the students, the deaf students in this class would not be getting the video transcripts - esp. the "before you read" video - in time to access that video before they do the week's reading. |
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Icelandic Society of Cardiology
The Icelandic Society of Cardiology is a member of the European Society of Cardiology
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As a member of the Icelandic Society of Cardiology, you are automatically a member of the European Society of Cardiology and the ESC Community.
President: Dr. T. Hrafnkelsdottir, FESC
Secretary: Assist. Prof. G.T. Gunnarsson, FESC
Treasurer: Dr. H. M. Skuladottir, FESC
Past President: Dr. T. Gudnason, FESC
ESC Member since: 1968
Friday 27 - Monday 30 August 2021 (4 Days)
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The tactical level is fairly straightforward: the art of fighting with a particular kind of military unit. In the hierarchy of strategic levels, success at the tactical level has to contribute to the success of the next level up, the operational level. I alluded to this connection in my last post, showing that the fighting skill of the Roman legionnaire made the stunning victories of the Roman campaigns possible. Of course, an inexperienced Roman politician could always command the army straight into disaster, but you couldn't blame the legions for the mistakes of someone like Varus.
People who follow military affairs are often fascinated by the tactical level. Tank aficianados, for example, like to read and talk about armored tactics. It's a pretty interesting topic. But as we've seen, it's only one small part of a much larger story.
Armored tactics are now a very well understood discipline with time-honored principles. If at all possible, fight on the move. Maneuver to a "hull down" position, like a brick wall or a hillock, so the rest of the tank gets extra protection while the turret can still fire at the enemy. "Shoot and scoot" is a pretty effective technique, so that the enemy won't find you in the spot from which you just fired. Hitting the enemy from the flank or rear is key, if you're worried that you can't penetrate the thicker armor in the front. Never drive tanks into city streets unless the infantry has first cleared the surrounding buildings of hidden enemy soldiers armed with anti-tank weapons. And so on.
Mastering the profession of arms at this level may or may not contribute to victory, however. The 1983 invasion of Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury) looked more like several separate invasions. Marines, Rangers, paratroopers, Delta Force commandos, naval aviation--each force seemed to be operating separately from the others. (It's worth asking, as many did after the invasion, why all the services needed to be involved in this operation, when perhaps this was a simple amphibious assault and hostage rescue.) The Grenada invasion succeeded in spite of itself; if the Cuban and Grenadan forces had offered stiffer resistance, a somewhat comically uncoordinated operation could have been a major disaster.
Tactics are critical, and the human face of warfare is most visible at this level: the tank platoon commander, the infantry seargent, the fighter pilot, the commando, the captain of a submarine, the helicopter gunship pilot. Other levels may seem more abstract, but they're just as important.
There's a lot I could say about the tactical level, particularly when it comes to the types of troops needed for counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. I'll save that discussion for later, since I'll be digging into the specifics of those two types of warfare in future posts. For now, I want to talk about two important misunderstandings about the tactical level of the war in Iraq.
As you can guess from reading this blog, I'm very sympathetic with a comment that General Anthony Zinni made during his 60 Minutes interview broadcast last weekend. Zinni argued that nothing justifies shutting down critical discussion of the Iraq war. The slogan "support the troops" is an argument for open discussion, not the stifling of criticism. If the US Army give soldiers faulty rifles, Zinni said, no one would complain if you point out their defects. Given the danger these faulty weapons pose to the soldiers carrying them, it'd be the responsibility of any citizen, not just someone in uniform, to point out the risk. If you arm the same soldiers with a faulty strategy, the risks are exactly the same--and so is our common responsibility to point out defects when we see them.
Unfortunately, critical discussions of our counterterrorism effort against al Qaeda and our counterinsurgency operations in Iraq make a lot of people uncomfortable. There's a chain of reasoning that breaks in a fairly obvious place, but one apparently that a lot of people pretend not to see. We have a superbly equipped and trained military, particularly at the tactical level. We are justifiably proud of these men and women in uniform. They are trained and equipped to perform amazing feats in service to the nation, and they pledge their lives in our common defense. However, pride in their accomplishments as tactical virtuosos doesn't mean that their virtuosity is being put to good use. The operational and theater strategies that determine when, where, and who they fight may be fatally flawed. Therefore, we're not supporting our troops through our silence; we can only support them, as Zinni correctly says, if we identify strategic defects that makes "harm's way" more harmful than it should be.
My second point about the US military's efficiency is that it often leads to unrealistic expectations. You should be applauded for your extraordinary achievements; the price of success shouldn't be wildly escalated expectations than you can do the impossible. The rollercoaster of emotion about the Patriot missile batteries used in the 1991 Gulf War showed this psychology in action. At first, people expected the Patriots to be able to intercept and destroy close to 100% of the SCUD missiles the Iraqis fired at Israel. This expectation was wholly unrealistic, and unfortunately, some US military and civilian officials encouraged this misperception. When the actual rates of successful Patriot intercepts were released to the public after the war, many cried foul, charging that they had been hoodwinked into trusting a technological marvel that was far less than marvelous. Whatever you think of the Patriot missile system, you can't fault it for failing to knock down every SCUD missile. As advanced as the Patriot technology was, no system could deliver complete success.
The same phenomenon is at work in Iraq, only the focus this time is on flesh and blood soldiers, not steel and silicon weapons systems. Because "the troops" are seen as the best in the world, we've set them up for unfair accusations of failure when we discover that total efficiency is impossible. The crew of an Apache gunship can't fire on a building with absolute certainty that the missile won't hit a neighboring apartment block by accident. The gunner can't know for sure that there aren't innocents in the building when the rocket explodes. The pilot and gunner may have performed their mission with unmatched efficiency, while unwittingly killing bystanders in the process. Who's fault is that?
A recent NPR story about US snipers in Iraq epitomized this risk. For all the embedded reporters, thousands of air time reporting on the war, countless articles discussing the day-to-day fighting in Iraq, there has been very little explanation of how the modern "profession of arms" actually works. Snipers have a tough tactical challenge--stalking and killing a specific target from long range--that requires special skills and some innate talent.
The reporter, Anne Garrels, first interviewed a recently-trained sniper, one of many recently put through "sniper school." Just as there aren't enough Arabic language speakers in Iraq, there's also a shortage of snipers. The soldier interviewed readily admitted that he was not the most proficient in his craft, but he tried to do his best. In the highly populated areas where he was deployed, he had to be careful not to hit innocent bystanders. His "score," therefore, wasn't as high as it might be, had he more experience and a less complicated battleground in which to hunt.
OK so far. However, Garrels then interviewed another, more experienced sniper. Suddenly, the whole tone of the piece changed. Sgt. Daniel Osborne, the seasoned sniper, talked about his higher kill rate, and then spoke in measured tones about how if he ever killed an innocent bystander by accident, he'd be no better than the people he was fighting. As Garrels says near the end of the piece, "Sgt. Osborne says he...has...made...no...mistakes."
I'm not being cute with the punctuation. That's exactly the kind of inflection that Garrels used in that sentence. That's also the kind of outlandish expectation that sets up soldiers like Osborne for later accusations of being babykillers and psychopaths. Mistakes will happen, with tragic results. Soldiers are trained to avoid civilian casualties, which offend their moral sensibilities in any case. But as other accounts like this one and this one show, it's unrealistic to expect US snipers to operate in difficult, confusing, and dangerous places like Fallujah, Najaf, and Karballah and not make mistakes.
The higher the pedestal, the longer the fall--and news stories like Garrels' piece put the troops on a very high pedestal indeed.
I have noticed that you are going thru Luttwack's book from back to front. This makes the disuccsion rather interesting, but I keep waiting for you to get to Chapter 3 on Efficiency. I think this is the best in the book, and quite significant for our current military situation. It is similar to, but not identical with, the point made in Arthur C Clarke's short story from 1951 "Superiority".
Thanks for the reminder about "Superiority," too.
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The ninth and final season of Seinfeld began airing on September 25, 1997, and concluded on May 14, 1998 on NBC.
Production
Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television and was aired on NBC in the US. The executive producers were Larry David, George Shapiro, and Howard West with Tom Gammill and Max Pross as supervising producers. Bruce Kirschbaum was the executive consultant. This season was directed by Andy Ackerman.
The series was set predominantly in an apartment block on New York City's Upper West Side; the ninth season was shot and mostly filmed in CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California. The show features Jerry Seinfeld as himself, and a host of Jerry's friends and acquaintances, which include George Costanza, Elaine Benes, and Cosmo Kramer, portrayed by Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards, respectively.
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Reception
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 61% approval rating with an average rating of 5.9/10, based on 23 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "In its final season, the cynical show about nothing goes out defiantly on its own terms – even if means alienating fans who may have wanted things to end differently."
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